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

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, misc-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, netb@yuba.ne.jp
Subject: Re: misc/33898: "NetBSD Documentation: Steps to connect via PPPoE (DSL)" needs correction
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:05:34 +0200

 On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:08:43AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
 >      Can you try it with 'inet 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.1 up' in
 > /etc/ifconfig.pppoe0, i.e. without the '! /sbin/ifconfig pppoe0' part
 > on the front?  Given the way /etc/ifconfig.* is processed, this should
 > be equivalent.
 
 Good idea - if this helps we have to decide if we'd call this a bug in
 ifconfig, but I'd not oppose changing the documentation that way. It is
 a bit IPv4 centric - I'd welcome patches from anyone using pppoe with 
 IPv6.
 
 Martin