It sounds like the vpn is turning off the firewall and then turning it back on. Can you do these steps in a terminal:
1. sudo ufw status 2. start the vpn 3. while the vpn is connecting, run sudo ufw status 4. when the vpn is done connecting, run sudo ufw status You'll have to time this right, but if the VPN is turning off ufw, this sounds like a bug in gufw not noticing the changes (which wouldn't be surprising, gufw expects to manage the firewall and the VPN is (perhaps) running commands out from under gufw. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Gufw Developers, which is subscribed to Gufw. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662412 Title: Problem with VPN Status in Gufw: Invalid Status in ufw: Incomplete Bug description: My VPN seems to disable the firewall whilst it - the VPN - is connecting; or at least GUFW shows the firewall as disabled. Moreover, the firewall comes back on when the VPN is connected. Good! The problem is as follows. *GUFW does not show the new - firewall re-enabled - state until GUFW is restarted (ie. until I've quit the program and restarted it). Linux Mint 18.1 x64 Cinnamon. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gui-ufw/+bug/1662412/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
