Hi, I'm having the same problem here, since my system specification differs a bit and there was no reaction on the bug for quite some time, I thought I'd add my reply.
I'm running Debian 3.1, pppoe 3.5-4, libc6 2.3.2.ds1-4, ppp 2.3.10-1 on i386 using Linux 2.6.8-2-386.
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