Well - she's right in not to like to shutdown and restart, because that reminds of another system

I didn't know that the other machine made the dialup (or the modem is dialing-up by itself). But for now we can all be happy - pon, poff, pump, and pppstatus perhaps, instead of plog.

shah:
Code:
pppstatus -d 10
will show the connection-status on tty10.