ppp is not starting

Dear All

We have adsl ( bsnl broadband ) connection and we want to configure in linux server ( which is working as proxy). While activating the interface ppp i am getting the following error

/sbin/adsl-start line 217:19723 Terminated $CONNECT “$@”>/dev/null 2 >&1.

any idea how do i activate it. I am not able to login in Broadband dsl connection.

Kindly help to resolve this.

Regards
Sakthi