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At 05:01 PM 12/09/2003, John Polstra wrote:

>When I first installed FreeBSD on this system, it disabled dynamic
>standby mode as you showed above.  Maybe it shouldn't have ... :-)

Is it possible Dell re-enables it somehow in the BIOS ? Perhaps your 
version of the NIC needs it disabled a different way ?  Also I found I 
needed to physically power off some of the machines for the change to take 
effect and also the problem was MUCH more acute at 10baseT than 
100BaseTX.  I think jlemon said it was in both modes, but I only ever saw 
the problem at 10baseT and like you saw, it didnt take much to force the issue.

         ---Mike