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> The problem is that they are having a lot of difficulty
> collecting mail from the mailhub I set up for them 
> on a P166 FreeBSD box with 64 MB RAM.
> We are a webcompany with 2 MB line to the same
> ISP that our customer is dialling into. (We are not the ISP)
> 
> Een over a LAN, when I ping the FreeBSD box, the very
> first request _always_ times out.
> (Almost as if the machine is waking up)

I'm nothing close to an expert, but as a guess in the dark, perhaps some
tpye of power management is active? Which is putting various parts of the
system to sleep when idle, which causes it to need time to wakeup?

Maybe not... oh well, good luck.