My friend from Ateneo Physics dept. complained that he can connect to Ateneo's ppp server using Win98 but not using RedHat 7.2 linux. So I helped him find out what's wrong by going though all the entries in /etc/ppp/. Nothing seems to be wrong there. I asked him to check the ppp log entries in /var/log/messages, and it seems that his local pppd is trying to negotiate callback with Ateneo's pppd, which is not configured to do callback. So I gave him /usr/sbin/pppd from the AdmuLinux distribution to replaced RedHat's pppd, and the former worked like a charm! My friend then consulted the various mailing lists and he discovered that RedHat 7.2 pppd was incorrectly built to negotiate callback by default, but RedHat is silent about this.
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