Consider the ip_down_hook plugin hook if you want to catch either event. pppd can also be killed with SIGKILL, unhandled, and so kernel destroys interface. No code in pppd executed. No ip_down_hook executed. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html