[plug] PPP on demand

[Peter Wright]

Hi all,

A question which may well fall into the RTFM class:

A friend of mine is wanting to set up a (Mandrake7) linux box at his
home to do the usual IP masquerading server stuff, mailserver,
fileserver, etc.  for his main localnet Windows machine(s).

I'm quite familiar with everything he wants except one thing - 

He'd like it to be set up so that he can boot up the Windows machine,
fire up a web browser, start browsing... and the Linux box will detect
this and automagically try to start a PPP connection to his ISP. I'm
fairly sure that something like this can be done with Linux, but have
little idea how.

I have a feeling that this might be something to do with diald or a
related program, and I was hoping some of you might be able to either
point me towards more information or explain how it is done.

*hopeful look* ;)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Pete.
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