The following reply was made to PR bin/30174; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/30174: pppoectl(8) -f non-functional
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 10:09:15 +0200

 On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 07:51:01AM +0000, teceem@gmx.net wrote:
 
 > Create a pppoe(4) device. Create a file pppoe.conf containing for example a
 > line "myauthname=foo". Call pppoectl -f pppoe.conf pppoe0. Check with
 > pppoectl pppoe0. "myauthname" is still "".
 
 No authname can be set w/o an authproto. Try:
 
 myauthproto=pap
 myauthname=foo
 
 and it will work.
 
 I agree that diagnostics could be better, but this is unrelated to the -f
 handling.
 
 Martin