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

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: Henry Nelson <netb@yuba.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/33898: "NetBSD Documentation: Steps to connect via PPPoE (DSL)" needs correction
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 00:30:50 +0200

 On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:45:02PM +0000, Henry Nelson wrote:
 >   My problem
 >  report is about the "! /sbin/ifconfig pppoe0 inet " which I needed to
 >  prefix to the "0.0.0.0 0.0.0.1 up" that is in the instructions.
 
 Strange, this works for me on -current (and as far as I remember always
 did).
 
 If you leave out the !/sbin... part, what does "ifconfig pppoe0" say?
 
 Martin