Dan Halbert wrote: > I'm having the following problem with PPP: I can connect and ping, but > when I use ftp or telnet, I get "block on freelist isn't free: ..." > errors in /var/adm/messages.
I had the same experience several weeks ago when trying to connect to the Xyplex terminal service at my office. I am now connecting through Netcom with the same kernel and ppp software without any problems. When using Trumpet for Windows, I had no trouble connecting to the Xyplex. I believe this is a bug in the linux ppp software, but I haven't reported it yet. I want to get some more information from our sysadmins at work, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. > I did some dejanews archive searching on this, and found others with > similar complaints, but no clear solution. Any insights or similar > experiences? An initial attempt to rebuild the kernel generated some > compiler warnings in ppp-specific files. I rebuilt the kernel and the ppp software many different ways. I tried 1.3.30 kernel and ppp-2.2.0c from sunsite. None of this worked. I assumed that there was something wrong with my machine until I successfully connected to Netcom. I even ran with memory disabled in the region that the block on freelist wasn't free! It just moved, of course. We need to get this discussion going on comp.os.linux.networking and/or comp.protocols.ppp. I would cross-post this, but I think we should include more details from our experiences. Terminal server types, versions, modems should be included. Does anyone know of a linux-ppp mailing list? Jeff Ebert PS: Dan, I would like to know about the dejanews archive search. Please send me private mail about this.
