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If I try to connect to a VPN and then at the user / password prompt I press cancel (for instance, when I accidentally select the wrong VPN), it cancels the attempt, and then any further attempt to connect to any VPN just fails and asks me to check my settings.

Any ideas?

Thanks for advice!

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What type of VPN is it (L2TP, PPTP, Cisco IPSec, or something else)? If it's one of the builtin ones, is there anything informative in /private/var/log/ppp.log (you can view it with the Console utility)? – Gordon Davisson Jun 11 '11 at 16:36
Cisco IPSec, ill have a look there thanks – DanH Jun 12 '11 at 7:12

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Figured out that killing the process /usr/sbin/racoon forces the VPN system to reboot without having to restart the entire OS.

  1. Open Terminal and run sudo ps -ef|grep racoon
    • Requires sudo

  2. Identify the process number for /usr/sbin/racoon in the 2nd column of the following output (in this case, 289)

    0 289 1 0 0:00.04 ?? 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/racoon

    501 452 224 0 0:00.00 ttys000 0:00.00 grep --color racoon

  3. Run sudo kill -9 289 to end the process

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