Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

