The following reply was made to PR misc/33898; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/33898: "NetBSD Documentation: Steps to connect via PPPoE (DSL)" needs correction
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:51:31 +0200

 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:35:00AM +0000, henry nelson wrote:
 > 	If "/etc/ifconfig.pppoe0" has "0.0.0.0 0.0.0.1 up" as its last line,
 > 	pppoe0 is always "inet 0.0.0.0 -> 0.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000"
 > 	and never gets a real ip address.
 
 It works for me just fine with netmask 0xff000000 (and I don't see why
 netmask should make a difference here).
 
 Could you try to boot single user, leave all other interfaces untouched,
 just configure pppoe0 manually, add the default route and then ping
 something? Maybe some other inteface/route in your setup interferes with
 the default iface rout and stops the PPPoE connection from being established.
 
 Another way to test this would be to use "connect always" mode:
 
    ifconfig pppoe0 -link1
 
 I guess this would make pppoe0 connect and work, even without the
 netmask.
 
 Martin