>> It's a bit of a wild guess, but are you sure you're actually getting
>> full duplex?  [...]  You might give [forcing half-duplex] a try and
>> see if it helps.
> I haven't found any way to make dhclient set the mediatype for me
> when I connect,

Doesn't it work to "ifconfig hme1 up media 100baseTX" *before* running
dhclient?  That's what I'd do.  (I don't use DHCP enough for this to be
easy for me to test.)

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