Last time I did this I use pppd in demand mode. On a Debian system it's pretty simple: add "demand" (without quotes) to /etc/ppp/options mv no_ppp_on_boot ppp_on_boot Restart pppd /etc/init.d/ppp restart Read up on the Dial-on-Demand HOWTO, but I don't think there's much more to it than that. Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world."