Hi, pon issued by itself will execute the connection "provider". so: pon pon provider do the same thing. Is this a permissions problem? pppd may only be run by root or a member of the group dip: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 105884 Jun 18 1998 /usr/sbin/pppd Does your ppp log have any more information? Jon -- Email: jon@osfn.org jdp@efn.org ICQ: 39679408