Thanks for all who replied to this thread, indicating that a bad cable was likely the culprit.
In this case, changing the cable didn't help, but commenting out the "ifconfig_rl0='up'" line in /etc/rc.conf fixed the problem. Any ideas on why doing an 'ifconfig rl0 up' before starting PPP (using set device PPPoE:rl0) would cause this problem? (These machines are running 4.3-REL-p20) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message