A gentoo system that I have built up has a weird pppd related fault:

1) pppd not dialed in, internal network is fine
2) pppd active, internet connection is fine, but local network (eth0) has
high error rate and timeouts. 
3) kill pppd, the internal network comes good.

It does not appear firewall related, nothing other than eth0 timeouts in
the log.
Im lost - any ideas?

BillK

