On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:36:53PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I may have another clue...
> 
> I noticed that I only seemed to feel the problem when I was using my
> laptop directly; as it happens, I generally do that when using either
> 802.11 or EVDO.  By contrast, when I've logged into it remotely, I'm
> almost always on a wired net.
> 
> I tried running for a while with no network connectivity, i.e., with no
> EVDO card inserted and with ath0 ifconfig'ed down.  The problem still
> occurred.  On a whim, I disabled wm0 -- and the problem stopped....

Do the interface flags for wm fluctuate often? For example, by turning
PROMISC on and off?

Could you show your dmesg?

Pavel Cahyna