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Bug 439792 - Can't Unblock VPN Traffic Using the GUI
Can't Unblock VPN Traffic Using the GUI
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: firestarter
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Tomas Junnonen
Tomas Junnonen
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-19 22:13 UTC by Lonnie Best
Modified: 2011-12-06 06:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Lonnie Best 2007-05-19 22:13:52 UTC
Please describe the problem:
Firestarter blocks VPN tunnels and you can't unblock them using the graphical user interface.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Use vpnc to create a VPN tunnel to a remote network gated by Cisco Systems equipment.
2. Create a continuous ping to a device in the remote network.
3. Using Firestarter's GUI attempt to create policies that allow all traffic to and from the remote peer.
4. Restart Firestarter.


Actual results:
The continuous ping is successful only when Firestarter is off.

Expected results:
The continuous ping should be successful when Firestarter is on OR off.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
There is a non-GUI way to make this work, but the goal is to be able to control your firewall with the gui:
http://www.howtoadvice.com/FirestarterVPN/
Comment 1 Nicolas Wu 2008-03-28 10:58:16 UTC
I can confirm this bug; there is still no way of configuring tunnels with the GUI.
Comment 2 Akhil Laddha 2011-12-06 06:16:45 UTC
firestarter development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. I contacted Tomas Junnonen (majix@iki.fi) because he is listed as Developer on project page but didn't get any response. I found firestarter on fedora wiki [1] under deprecated packages so i am closing all the bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Deprecated_packages