[SWLUG] Ppp on demand

[Gareth Watkins]

  I'm a beginner (or strictly speaking, an experienced non-learner). 
I'm just trying out RedHat 8. (As an upgrade of a copy of my RH7.1 partition, 
it was a disaster, and broke all sorts of things that had worked smoothly, 
but as a clean install it's working very smoothly.)  I got an internet 
connection quickly by configuring an interface (ppp0) in the Network Device 
Control app, and found I could browse (with Mozilla & Lynx) & send/receive 
e-mail (tried Evolution & Balsa so far).

 Can anyone suggest a way (without going back to the script I used to use) 
of getting the ppp interface to activate itself when I do something (e.g. 
trying to receive an e-mail, or browsing) that requires it? There must be 
simple ways of doing this.

  Thanks
Gareth Watkins