cisco

I have to use VPNs at work. Specifically, to access my production webservers (etc), I have to use a Cisco VPN client. Sadly, the VPN concentrator overrides my choice of allowing local LAN access. So, when I am on the VPN, I have my DNS options changed so I can’t use any local servers. This is a serious, serious pain. So painful in fact, that many times instead of fight with it, I simply would run a Windows session in VMware (on my Mac) and connect the VPN there.

I had this error popup today on my Mac OS X Lepopard 10.5.4 machine. This is not cool as, well, I NEED MY VPN TO WORK! Thankfully google came to my rescue. The solution is to execute the following in Terminal: sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart Thanks for the answer, VirtuallyShocking.com.