Archive for April, 2011

VPN Problems with Mac OS X

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

From time to time the VPN client integrated in Mac OS X keeps on failing to connect to our university VPN server. I searched for a long time and today I found the solution to restart the service without restarting my Mac (origin of the solution is here):

  1. Open a Terminal and search for the racoon process 
    Florian-Feldhauss-MacBook-Pro:~ ffeldhaus$ ps aux | grep racoon
root     10495   0,0  0,0  2447088    672   ??  Ss   So11am    0:02.27 /usr/sbin/racoon
  2. Now kill the racoon process 
    Florian-Feldhauss-MacBook-Pro:~ ffeldhaus$ sudo kill 10495
  3. At last, restart racoon 
    Florian-Feldhauss-MacBook-Pro:~ ffeldhaus$ sudo /usr/sbin/racoon

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