A 'pppctl' port for Linux, for controlling 'ppp' running on OpenBSD?

[Beneath <ishikodzume@beneath.plus.com>]

Hi,

I recently set up OpenBSD running as my firewall/gateway.
I need to be able to bring up and take down the PPP link that the
OpenBSD box has to the internet, via a command from a Linux box on my
LAN.
The ideal way to do this, i thought, would be to run 'ppp' on the BSD
box, accepting TCP connections from the 'pppctl' program. However,
search as i might, i cannot find a port of this program for linux.
Any idea on how to do this? The command is actually going to be running
from a Bash CGI script on the linux box, via Apache (so all machines can
use this page to connect, even the windoze ones). I don't want to run a
httpd on the BSD box.
SSHing in each time to do it a decent option... unless i can automate
this in a nice way.

Ideally i'd like my OpenBSD box running absolutely no services
whatsoever, however i assume this is almost as secure as long as i limit
it to the rl0 device and a specific IP via pf.

Thanks for any help,
 - Daniel