From: "Geo" 

Ah, a switch. Next time it happens, reboot the switch and wait 15 minutes
then see if it's still greyed out.

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:43c12015$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >massive amounts of broadcasts?
>
> Didn't sniff, but the switch lights, which are positioned so they're easy
to
> see from my main chair, seemed a bit quieter, if anything.  (I'm blessed
with
> an ARP-quiet cable ISP, so if there isn't anything new up, I only get
bursts
> every few minutes.
>
> I'm theorizing that something in the MAC cacheing, or in browsemastering
> clotted up.  How that could produce the same symptoms on four machines is
> beyond me.  Enumeration of new machines seems a bit faster now, even with
a
> *&%% SP2 machine as the usual, default browsemaster (because it's rarely
off
> at night, not because I fiddled with the registry - gave up on that - too
many
> hickies).
>

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