It appears that the bug I was bitching about in regards to my issues with Net::CDP has been documented.
Problem Report kern/80005 : [re] re(4) network interface _very_ unpredictable working (RTL8169S/8110S Gigabit Ethernet)
Mar 6 10:50:20 smut kernel: re0: <realtek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xfb122000-0xfb1220ff irq 17 at device 11.0 on pci0
Boo, hiss.
