From: "Frank Haber" 

I don't know enough to know whether what I'm suggesting will set fire to
your porch or give your firstborn a hangnail, but how about....

installing a firewire card and bridge it to the NIC.  Firewire is treated
in a very Ethernet sort of way in XP. It's possible you'd need something
connected that would respond.  Firewire networking devices are very rare.

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