>Ah, someone _is_ listening.  I don't know, and I don't have an i386
>on which to test this, so it might be sparc-specific, for which I apologise.
>Can anyone reproduce this problem?  I've sent diagnostic and extensive
>debugging output and nobody seems able to help me.  This is with 
>current AND ALIGNED kernel and userland.  I have to keep running a slightly
>older kernel in which, alas, I was Stoopid [TM] and didn't compile in
>PPP compression!  And now, because of this annoying problem, _I CAN'T_
>compile in ppp compression!

	Data point: I've been running pppd on a -current i386 box for
the last three months, rebuilding pretty frequently. Thus, it's not a
universal problem. But I haven't tried to use any of the BSD
compression, either. I'll try that later this week.

	- Nathan