On Jun 12, Tom T. Thai wrote
> I think I found ppp -auto -alias.. to ppp to dial automatically, but am 
> still confused as to how does ppp know how to initiate the connection... 
> should something be running to watch for packets going out to the Net to 
> start ppp?
> 

Yes, and that daemon is call'd pppd :)
look at pppd(8), and search for "demand"

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