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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:55:49AM -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:
>   I've seen this problem on RELENG_6, although the SSH connections
>   would not "time out" -- after a page or so of 'dmesg' output, they
>   would immediately get disconnected/severed.  I believe the problem was
>   caused by my use of "modulate state" instead of "keep state" (since on
>   RELENG_6 "keep state" is not implicit).

Bingo.  The problem was "modulate state".  Sorry if the answer is
obvious, but any idea why a new NIC might have aggravated this?

In any case, thanks!

bw.