Thank you all with your patience. After experiencing other troubles with this setup and spending many hours on tech support with the cable company, I have been able to isolate this issue to an intermittent problem with my hardware or upstream.
I have successfully tested the software during one of the "good" hardware operating windows, so I recommend closing this bug as the issue no longer appears to be with debian. Now I just need to convince myself the issue is not with the cable modem. Look forward to the sarge release! Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]