Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:

> BTW: Has there been any changes in the behaviour of pppd since
> NetBSD-1.4? It definitely didn't work with various error messages
> regarding missing secrets and the likes...

The default for noauth/auth changed.  I _think_ you now need to add
-noauth or somesuch to the pppd command line to emulate the old
behaviour.  Check pppd(8) for more info.

Simon.