Re: new apt source available
Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:39:55AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> Note that I'm working in a fairly non-standard way, so if it doesn't
>> happen to anybody else it might not be too big a deal: I'm running
>> inside VMware (I know, I don't like their licence either, but I'm told
>> Plex86 doesn't boot the Hurd yet so for now it's that or nothing) and
>> telnetted in from the host machine.
>
>pfinet has a series of known bugs which make it's behaviour irregular
>without stressing it. I would encourage you to see if the problem is
>reproducable outside of VmWare. Since the worst of the bugs in pfinet
>appear to be timing related, I would be surprised if you were able to
>consistantly reproduce it.
This system is a server, so I can't try it natively for now; maybe when
I get the most important stuff shifted somewhere else. The virtual
machine does tend to exaggerate timing-related bugs sometimes.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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