Have you tried the arp trick?
To wit: set up an explicit entry in another machine's arp table pointing to it?
Hell, sometimes "arp -d *" (which in xpland means delete all arp table entries) manages to wake my xp machine up here when it decides not to handle connectedness properly.
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