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I have subscribed to a VPN service, but it seems that it does not work whenever my firewall is active.

I have up until now used Firestarter to configure my firewall, but it has no options for allowing a VPN connection. Nor does gufw.

What do I do to keep my firewall active, and still be able to connect to my VPN?

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answered 2 Years ago inaterested · Accepted Answer

Found a solution that works with Firestarter.

I use OpenVPN, so I opened /etc/firestarter/user-pre and added the following lines:

# Allow traffic on the OpenVPN inteface

$IPT -A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT

$IPT -A OUTPUT -o tun+ -j ACCEPT

Then I restarted the firewall. Stopping it and starting it within the Firestarter interface seemed to suffice.

The solution was here.