Wow, I was typing a response to you earlier this morning when my display 
went off and my pc case started to smoke.  My good ol ECS K7S5A mobo 
apparently had a component failure and fried out.   Lucky for me I was 
at the computer at the time and was able to pull the plug before my PCI 
cards, HD and DDR memory before it could get fried with the mobo.  12 
hours later and I'm finally able to use my pc again.  At least it wasn't 
Monday.

Anyway back on topic.  I never bought the Qwest explanation.  The Nokia 
DSLAM's that Covad uses allow for different interleave levels and also 
for no interleave at all, which is known as fast path.  I find hard to 
believe that Cisco would lock the interleave settings.  Not that I have 
to worry about that anymore.

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Jose A. Hernandez
jhboricua at jhboricua.org
rsync://rsync.jhboricua.org/gentoo-portage/