How to configure the firewall for VPN PPP connections?

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Joe. Is there some graphical tool for that?
>>>
>>> I'm sure that there is, but it may depend on your DE.  I use Xfce and
>>> system-config-firewall but YMMV.
>>
>> The solution suggested in the following address works fixed the issue:
>>
>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/63759/pptp-connection-fails-after-last-update/?sort=oldest
>
> If you want that change made permanent to your firewall, don't forget
> to do
>
>         firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent
>
> or add the "--permanent" flag to the "--add-rule" lines. Otherwise
> you'll need to repeat it each time you reboot or restart the firewall.

Thanks, Rick, for your advice. Indeed, one has to make the change
permanent to the firewall.

Paul