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With the help of Jonathon, I think I've made some progress. I changed

/etc/hostname.pppoe0 to be the following:
pppoedev fxp0 authproto pap authname 'MYAUTHNAME' authkey 'MYPASSWORD'

!/sbin/ifconfig fxp0 up

!/sbin/ifconfig \$if inet 0.0.0.0  0.0.0.1

 netmask 0xffffffff mtu 1452

!/sbin/route add default 0.0.0.1

up
and restarted the network. The output of ifconfig and dmesg are

attached in separate files. As you can see, I still don't get a proper

inet address, i.e. I'm still not connected. No error messages this time.
I have a conjecture. Is it possible that my ISP does not require

authentication and that the only thing that prevents me from

connecting is the 'authproto pap' entry in /etc/hostname.pppoe0?
Thanks,
Amit.

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