PPPoE equivalent?

[snowcrash+freebsd]

> Yes, it puzzles me why it happens in the first place, but as it hits the XP,
> linux and BSD connections equally frequenly, I am assuming it is a function
> of hardware or IP provider.

fwiw, looking at your conf, my ppp.conf contains one setting that
yours does not ...

  enable tcpmssfixup

there's a bit of discussion abt it here:

  http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-development/2001/Aug/msg00502.html

dunno if this is related -- just throwing it out there.

cheers.