Allow GRE packets through the firewall

Currently the DO firewall filters IP Protocol 47 (GRE) packets, which interferes with pptp vpn links. If GRE packets were added to the list, along with ICMP, IPv4 and IPv6, this would allow the use of PPTP VPNs (see e.g. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-your-own-vpn-with-pptp) and other VPNs that utilize GRE packets, such as IPSec

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Sep 11 2018

Planned

Sep 11, 2018

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We are planning to add support to it in the near future, thanks for the feedback, it helps inform our discussions.

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Nicholas Dangles commented

4 Jun 04:40am

Any update on this? Near future has become almost 3 years

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Fredrik Yayabee commented

28 Jul, 2020 09:49am

If you implement support for this, can you also implement support for IPSEC passthrough (ESP-packages) at the same time? It seems reasonable that the Firewalls should allow for both IPSEC and PPTP, especially since IPSec IKEv2 is more modern and secure. There is another ides ticket specifically about this as well, with number DO-I-2955. Maybe you can implement both at the same time?

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Wojciech Gebis commented

30 Jul, 2019 08:23am

When adding GRE support is planning?

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Guest commented

4 Jul, 2019 08:01pm
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We need this
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Guest commented

20 Jan, 2019 12:00am

Also please add support for ESP (for IPsec)

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ibrahim akyel commented

9 Nov, 2018 05:26pm

+1

i can't use firewall service because of this. I have to use Ufw

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