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From: "Martin G. McCormick" <martin@server1.shellworld.net>
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Karl Pielorz writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Do you mean 'gbe' or do you mean 'bge'?

That's what happens after a long day of nothing much. It's
bge0

dmesg yielded exactly 1800 lines of the following:

bge0: link state changed to UP
bge0: link state changed to DOWN

Martin