> Yes, it does. /etc/ppp/options sets the system-wide options required > for all links. The privileged "call" and unprivileged "file" options > are there (along with the command line) to add options that are specific > to an individual link. I had assumed all three are equivalent and I had to choose one method. The actual design makes much more sense. > That information would have helped. GPRS has a number of built-in > design flaws. One of them is that the LCP negotiation is done locally > (not end-to-end) along with a completely faked-out authentication layer. > The "real" negotiation with the remote endpoint doesn't occur until the > Network phase -- that is, during IPCP. > > So, yes, I'm referring to the device doing LCP negotiation. It's not > doing it right. Thanks a lot for this explanation. My whole setup and situation is much more clear to me now. I kept wondering why the peer had different behaviour based on the GPRS modem I was using. I was under the impression that the chat script talks to the modem, and pppd talks to the remote server. Thanks again!! Regards, Manish -- 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