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nocturnal writes:

>  I'm about to call my ISP and complain because i doubt this is a
>  FreeBSD problem

	The mention of dhclient suggests you too may be suffering from
the problem described at:

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86427&cat=kern

	If so, the problem is not (or at least not entirely)
volume-of-traffic related.  I recently had one system run for 21
days (including heavy p2p traffic) before choking; a day or two
later it imploded after a couple of hours of very light load.


				Robert Huff