On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Mike Wright
<nobody(a)nospam.hostisimo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was able to connect to a vpn server (PPTP) with no difficulties. But
>>>> now, I get always the following message:
>>>>
>>>> "VPN connection failed because service stopped".
>>>>
>>>> From a MS Windows machine, I can connect to the referred vpn server.
>>>>
>>>> Could someone please help me?
>>>
>>>
>>> The following log may help you:
>>
>>
>> The problem was related to the firewall, although I had not changed
>> anything in the firewall.
>>
>> The following (done as root) fixed the problem:
>>
>> firewall-cmd --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -p gre -j ACCEPT
>> firewall-cmd --direct --add-rule ipv6 filter INPUT 0 -p gre -j ACCEPT
>> firewall-cmd --reload
>
>
> How to make permanent these changes on the firewall?
firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent
Thanks, Mike and Joe!
Paul