Re: VPN connection failed because service stopped

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Mike Wright
 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