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Mac OS X 10.7 VPN PPTP 'Disconnecting' pppd process hang

The PPTP client on Mac OS Lion will not discconect from a Win 2003 PPTP Server.

I experience a forever 'Disconnecting' in the status bar.

Running a process list i.e

# ps -eaf | grep pppd

I can see pppd is still running, despite the disconnection request.


I also have a Fortinet SSL VPN client which once disconnected - I can't re-establish a connection, again due to pppd hanging.


sudo kill -9 <pppd proc id> won't work. The only way to re-connect is to reboot the laptop.

This takes forever as I assume the O/S is trying to kill all processes and pppd won't close!

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 21, 2011 1:02 PM

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Mac OS X 10.7 VPN PPTP 'Disconnecting' pppd process hang

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