![]() ![]() My work-around is to consult what Cisco added and manually add those servers through the Mac OS X Network Preference Pane. That doesnt work, and theres a warning to that effect in the Apple-generated 'nf' file. Enter your NetID, NetID password and the word ' push ' in the second password field to receive a push notification to your smart phone (requires Duo mobile app). When Cisco establishes a VPN connection, it seems they edit '/etc/nf' to add the VPNs DNS servers. To connect to Macworld's servers, I use the Cisco VPN Client (version 4.9.01). After restart, locate the Cisco folder and double-click on Cisco An圜onnect VPN Mobility Client. While this works well most of the time, I occasionally receive this error message when I launch the app:Įrror 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem. Please make sure that you have at least one network interface that is currently active and has an IP address and start this application again. When this occurs, I definitely have an active network interface that has an IP address, so it's quite clearly not an issue with my machine's settings. The problem seems to be related to sleeping the Mac after using the Cisco VPN Client this sometimes (but not always) will lead to the above error message when I next try to use the VPN Client. What makes it extra frustrating is that it's not consistent - the app will work for days at a time through sleep and wake cycles, then spontaneously decide it's time for error 51 to appear. I used to think rebooting was the only way to solve this problem - I hadn't had much luck with the solutions posted in this older hint. Sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart In Terminal, use this relatively simple command to stop and restart the kernel extension that the Cisco VPN Client uses: A while back, after getting "51'd" again, I went in search of a better solution - and I found one. In the two or three times I've had this problem occur since finding the above solution, restarting the kernel extension has fixed the problem every time. So thanks to for solving this frustrating issue with the Cisco VPN Client. ![]() I would hope a future Cisco VPN Client update would solve the issue entirely, but that fix has been published for two years already, so I'm not holding my breath.With the An圜onnect SSL VPN client, users of Windows and Mac OS X, Linux as well as Windows Mobile, can establish a VPN connection. ![]()
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