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You can check connectivity with a cron job, and add a stanza to /etc/network/interfaces to connect at boot.
 
===Extra configuration===
 
You will find at this point that most web sites work, but some few don't - they just freeze on loading or during initial SSL negotiation. This is because they are blocking ICMP, which is stupid - in part because they are then unable to indicate or respond to the need to fragment large packets. You can get round it by limiting the maximum packet size for TCP: set TCPfix on your clueless control panel, or on the router: