After some frustration, I gave up trying to use mouse-pppoe under NetBSD
1.6 (at least for now).  I could get it up to a point where it would
connect, but I couldn't get a route *to* the IP number assigned to the
interface.  (Hence, I couldn't even ping the interface's IP number, much
less anything on the other side of the interface.)

Maybe I was doing something dumb, though.  (I never really have had to
deal with routes much explicitly.  (^&)


I'm also suffering a secondary problem, even with pppoe.  After piecing my
way through the pppoe(4) man-page, I manually ran the commands that were
suggested as an /etc/ifconfig.pppoe0 file.  This seems to work, but now my
route *to* the pppoe's IP number goes *through* my ISP and back to me.
I remember seeing this with a plain PPP connection a few years ago, but
don't remember how I fixed it.  (I do remember that I did fix it; never
had this problem with mouse-pppoe, though that may be because I dragged
along /etc/ppp/* files from previous lives.  (^&)


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu