Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Fwd: Re: what do you need in regards to testing help?

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From: james jones <jame_sj@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:47:13 -0700 (PDT)
As per instructions. I am making the offer to the
whole group. I will try to help as my time and
knowledge permits.

James
--- Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 01:13:43 -0700
> From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: james jones <jame_sj@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: what do you need in regards to testing
> help?
> 
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:56:16PM -0700, james
> jones wrote:
> > I am certainly not a packet level guru. Being that
> I
> > am still learning as I go in regards to network
> > analysis. But I think I might be able to help in
> > regards to testing alot of the "other" types of
> > bugs... Plus learning is always good. I have
> access to
> > all flavors of Windows (95 thru XP Home/Pro) at
> work
> > in the lab and would not be to far off task if am
> > looking to verify fixes while sniffing. The couple
> of
> > linux boxes I have I don't really want to use in
> > unstable ways being that I use them for firewalls
> and
> > proxies in the lab's testing environment. I would
> need
> > some instruction if you need something tested in a
> > linux environment with out destablizing the stable
> > version I use to sniff on the "gateway".
> > 
> > Let me know if ya need a tester.
> 
> I don't personally have time even to be the only
> person who hands stuff
> off to a tester, and am not the only person who'd be
> developing stuff
> that should be tested on various versions of
> Windows; "ya" should refer
> here to the Ethereal development team, not just to
> me, so you should
> make the offer to ethereal-dev as a whole.