PPTP VPN blocked by firewall

Hello.
As far as I can remember, there is an issue with pptp. Actually it is not a bug, but some default value in how the connection is handled (don’t blame me, I’m not an expert), and not strictly a firewall rule.

The solution was to issue this command:

sudo sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_helper=1

Then retry to connect.

If it works, let’s set it permanent, in order to survive to reboots:

echo net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_helper=1 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/98-nf_conntrack.conf
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