john@dhh.gt.org wrote: > > > Then you might as well use one of the available pppd front-ends. > > So what you want is a ppp monitoring and reporting utility. Not at all > incompatible with demand-dial. That is the point. The original post was about coming up with a good front-end for these reasons. I don't use one but a CI user will need one and the ones out there suck.