diff --git a/openvswitch.init b/openvswitch.init
index 9f1506c..cf32c79 100644
--- a/openvswitch.init
+++ b/openvswitch.init
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ start () {
     fi
     "$@"
 
-    $ovs_ctl --protocol=gre enable-protocol
+# Fedora kernel does not support OVS GRE tunneling yet
+#   $ovs_ctl --protocol=gre enable-protocol
 
     touch /var/lock/subsys/openvswitch
 }
diff --git a/openvswitch.spec b/openvswitch.spec
index b4dff6b..7d8b811 100644
--- a/openvswitch.spec
+++ b/openvswitch.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           openvswitch
 Version:        1.7.1
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?dist}
 Summary:        Open vSwitch daemon/database/utilities
 
 # Nearly all of openvswitch is ASL 2.0.  The bugtool is LGPLv2+, and the
@@ -204,6 +204,9 @@ desktop-file-install --dir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications %{SOURCE6}
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 25 2012 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> - 1.7.1-4
+- Don't add iptables accept rule for -p GRE as GRE tunneling is unsupported
+
 * Tue Oct 16 2012 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> - 1.7.1-3
 - require systemd instead of systemd-units to use macro helpers (#850258)