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To: Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.2-stable user ppp woes ... 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> 
> Problems began three days ago.  My ISP says noone else has
> reported this, and that nothing changed since Monday, so something
> must've happened on my end.
> 
> I've been running user ppp with no problems for over a year.
[.....]
>   set ifaddr 0/0 208.192.224.8/0 255.255.255.0/0
               ^^^
>   add 0 0 208.192.224.8

This never worked (not in -auto/-ddial anyway).  You must specify
a "guess" ip number at least, and netmasks shouldn't really have
a netmask specified.... Try using

    set ifaddr 10.10.10.10/0 208.192.224.8/0 255.255.255.0

in ppp.conf, and

    delete ALL
    add 0 0 HISADDR

in ppp.linkup.
-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....