I wouldn't want to discourage you from packaging pppupd. Go ahead! However one technical point. PPPd can be set to do LCP pings to keep the connection up. Mine seems to work very well this way. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP Bruce@Pixar.com 510-215-3502 Finger bruce@master.Debian.org for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3