Has anybody else seen output lossage with the 'de' driver?

I've got a multia at home being an X display, connected on a (very
small 8-) ethernet with a 386/20 which is my gateway to the outside
world.)

Occasionally -- twice today, but i don't think i've ever noticed it
before -- the multia has simply stopped talking correctly to the
ethernet.

The symptoms: the little traffic lights on my ethernet tranceivers go
on for longer than they should when i ping (instead of being a blip,
the ping looks like it's dribbling out of the machine, and i see
several short, quick blips), and the de interface's output error
counter increases.

I can apparently work around it by ifconfig'ing the de unit 'down' for
a minute or so, then ifconfig'ing it back up, but typically it causes
all or most of my connections to go belly up...


anybody?


chris