yeah it appears to be indeed a bug after having a close look at the logs (and a bit of sleep) I noticed That the modem was alway receiving a sighup right after having established the serial connection (before starting pppd) it looks like pppupd was calling the killscript once the serial connection was established. (quite weird heh?) I just made "killscript" point to a dumb script and all's fine. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com