You can persuade your pilot to start a ppp connection immediately when you enter as the telephone number the two digits 00 Using this feature, the script can be shorter. Somewhere on another PC I have my settings for pppd & masquerading, but wait some days till I get back to the other PC. Alexander. -- Alexander Schwartz (alexander.schwartz@gmx.net) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alex_schwartz