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  From: Andrew Burrow <alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Stephen Donaldson <steve@cyberqual.com>
  Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 12:11:54 +1030

Re: no route to host

	this is just a possibility, but it totally stumped me on
	switching to RedHat 6.0...


Some of the pppd option defaults have changed.  With RedHat 5 and
before, my ppp connection worked without explicitly set pppd options,
but since RedHat 6.0 I require

	'noipdefault'


What does this do, that was not necessary before?  Reading `man pppd`
I found ...

       noipdefault
              Disables the default behaviour  when  no  local  IP
              address  is  specified,  which  is to determine (if
              possible) the local IP address from  the  hostname.
              With  this option, the peer will have to supply the
              local IP address during IPCP negotiation (unless it
              specified  explicitly  on the command line or in an
              options file).