>Before I moved into my new house, my m0n0 box had been up for at least
>200-250 days or so. It just sat in the corner and did it's thing. I did
>swap out a network card for an intel unit after I moved so I could do
>vlans and optional interfaces over one card. Perhaps vlans and optional
>interfaces on intel cards has something to do with it.

 I have had this happenw tih Realtek NICs as well, exact same circumstances 
and bahaviour.  I know Realtek NICs are not the best, but I'm just saying 
that I don't think it's isolated to Intel NICs.

As for the VLANs and optional interfaces, that could be a possibility. (?) 
I run 12 VLANs hosted on one physical interface (Intel 10/100).  How many 
others are having this problem and are running VLANs?


Aaron