the physical interface must be marked UP

ok naddy@

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man4/pppoe.4 b/share/man/man4/pppoe.4
index 2a85ef7384f..d26e95a9044 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/pppoe.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/pppoe.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: pppoe.4,v 1.9 2006/05/17 11:50:23 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: pppoe.4,v 1.10 2006/05/18 15:38:57 reyk Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: pppoe.4,v 1.26 2003/10/02 07:06:36 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -109,6 +109,14 @@ inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.1 pppoedev ne0 \e
 !/sbin/route add default 0.0.0.1
 .Ed
 .Pp
+To mark the physical interface UP, just write a single
+.Ql up
+in
+.Pa /etc/hostname.ne0
+or the corresponding 
+.Xr hostname.if 5
+file.
+.Pp
 Since this is a PPP interface, the addresses assigned to the interface
 may change during PPP negotiation.
 There is no fine grained control available for deciding
diff --git a/share/man/man4/sppp.4 b/share/man/man4/sppp.4
index b7032a9f46b..5858861efe9 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/sppp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/sppp.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sppp.4,v 1.11 2006/05/17 11:57:48 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sppp.4,v 1.12 2006/05/18 15:38:57 reyk Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Joerg Wunsch
 .\"
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ A possible call to
 that could have been used to bring the interface into the state shown
 by the previous example:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
+# ifconfig em0 up
 # ifconfig pppoe0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff \e
 	pppoedev em0 \e
 	authproto chap authname uriah authkey "some secret" \e