diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cdd08e5e..ff6945c6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # ChangeLog for Gentoo System Intialization ("rc") scripts
 # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2
 
+  02 May 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
+
+    Don't delete addresses for PPP interfaces, #176764.
+
   30 Apr 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
 
     Stop using the [ -z "$@" ] test, use [ $# = 0 ] instead, #176554.
diff --git a/sh/net.sh b/sh/net.sh
index 27c81ba1..649e79e5 100755
--- a/sh/net.sh
+++ b/sh/net.sh
@@ -560,7 +560,10 @@ stop() {
 		fi
     done
 
-    _delete_addresses "${IFACE}"
+	# Only delete addresses for non PPP interfaces
+	if ! type is_ppp >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || ! is_ppp ; then
+		_delete_addresses "${IFACE}"
+	fi
 
     for module in ${MODULES} ; do
 		if type "${module}_post_stop" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then