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Jon Noack writes:
 > 
 > I run several machines with em network cards and 5.2.1-p3 with no 
 > issues.  I noticed your netmask is 255.255.254.0.  I wonder if the issue 
 > only occurs with certain (rare?) netmasks.  I'm definitely grasping for 
 > straws here.  In any case, it's ~4:30am local time so I will crawl off 
 > to bed and hope this doesn't sound too moronic in the morning...

FWIW, my netmask is the same (0xffffff00) on all machines where
I've seen this.  But I'm using fxp and sk, not em.

Drew