yea, ive been having problems with the switch too. I find that sometimes the connections will time out, and it seems the only recourse is to unplug the switch and let it reset. i dont know if its having some kind of buffer overflow problem, out of memory or what, i dunno. I have a shltty dlink switch, 5 port 10/100.
But i think the original problem is a mismatch of patch versions......