Well put, Devarshi

I think that what you're saying was the original intent of the bug report. 
Whilst it sucks that establishing a ppp link is more of a mission than it needs 
to be, it sucks a whole lot more that because NM can't tell that the user is in 
fact online, it misinforms client applications of an offline status -- changing 
their functionality (Firefox won't even try to get a page; Pidgin won't even 
let you attempt to go online, etc). 
IIRC, this was why I ended up uninstalling NM (replacing with wicd). Sure there 
are some other work-arounds (Firefox has a config tweak, for example), but the 
path of least resistance was simply to give up on NM.

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MASTER Network Manager integrated ppp support - should allow the configuration 
of dial up modems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311581
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