{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For work, the good days of using Tunnelblick are over, and I&#8217;m now using the Cisco VPNClient. Today it greeted me with a message: Error 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[657,5,658],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cisco","tag-macosx","tag-vpnclient"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}