Yeah.... I'm not surprised, but glad we could identify the root cause.
Some routers exhibit this behavior, others do not -- it comes down to the way the bootloader initializes the swich chip in the early boot process.
Although this doesn't necessarily 'solve' the issue, it does explain it (solving it requires a different bootloader). As such...
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Thanks! 