{"id":1259,"date":"2009-01-07T04:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T09:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2009-01-07T04:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T09:50:14","slug":"error-51-unable-to-communicate-with-the-vpn-subsystem-from-vpnclient-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/07\/error-51-unable-to-communicate-with-the-vpn-subsystem-from-vpnclient-fixed","title":{"rendered":"Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem from VPNClient (fixed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For work, the good days of using <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/tunnelblick\/\">Tunnelblick<\/a> are over, and I&#8217;m now using the Cisco VPNClient.<\/p>\n<p>Today it greeted me with a message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem.<br \/>\nPlease make sure that you have at least one network interface that is currently active and has an IP address and start this application again.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The thing is, I already had the wireless going, and it had an IP. Macworld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/136208\/ciscovpn.html\">tells me<\/a> to do:<\/p>\n<p><tt>sudo SystemStarter restart CiscoVPN<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>You can also do:<\/p>\n<p><tt>sudo \/System\/Library\/StartupItems\/CiscoVPN\/CiscoVPN restart<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>They both work. Let&#8217;s hope this is not a regular <strike>recurrence<\/strike>annoyance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Error%2051%3A%20Unable%20to%20communicate%20with%20the%20VPN%20subsystem%20from%20VPNClient%20%28fixed%29&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F01%2F07%2Ferror-51-unable-to-communicate-with-the-vpn-subsystem-from-vpnclient-fixed&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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