
It is not mandatory to bridge all of the Virtual Hubs to NICs. Local bridge is the possibility to connect a Virtual Hub to the network interface of the server, whether a virtual NIC or physical NIC, depending on the type of server.That “something” can be at least a VPN user (when logged in to the VPN) or a Virtual 元 Switch, or a NIC of the server when the local bridge is used. Virtual Hub is an internal virtual switch inside the SoftEther software.Here are the short explanations for the networking-minded people: I couldn’t find this kind of implementation in the documentation (or I just missed some details, let me know if that happened) so here are my notes about it.įirst off, in SoftEther there are concepts like local bridge, Virtual Hub, Virtual 元 Switch, Virtual NAT and Virtual DHCP Server. The VPN user’s traffic to the inside networks thus flows through the VPN link network. This is pretty normal type of VPN implementation. The inside segment is just a /28 link network as the /24 VPN pool (10.1.32.0/24) is a routed network “inside” the VPN server. The VPN server has a public IP address in the DMZ segment (198.51.100.9) and it is also connected to the VPN link network with a private IP address (10.1.1.4). Here is the network-level implementation I was attempting to do: In this post I describe the reference implementation I managed to complete with SoftEther. There is a lot of documentation in the site but somehow I felt the material was hard to absorb. However, this method is not recommended.For replacing a physical remote access VPN implementation with a VPN server in a virtual machine, one of the options is SoftEther. If you are going to operate VPN Server in User Mode (see section 3.2 Operating Modes for more information) and you can log into the server machine as a general user then you can use VPN Server under your own user privileges without asking the system administrator. Once the installation has been completed log in locally or remotely to the VPN Server service by using the VPN server administration tool and set all administrator passwords.
#SOFTETHER VPN IP ADDRESS INSTALL#
In this case you must request that the server's administrator (root or Administrator) install VPN Server for you. When the administrator of the server you are about to install VPN Server on is not going to be the VPN Server administrator.Once the VPN Server install is completed you will be able to set all administrator passwords. In this case you can install VPN Server yourself. When the administrator of the server you are about to install VPN Server on will be the same as the VPN Server administrator.When you install VPN Server you must first decide who will be the VPN Server administrator. VPN Server Reachability At The TCP/IP Level. Please refer to section 10.2 Common Concepts and Knowledge for more details on setting up a server under these circumstances. VPN Server will work just fine on a computer behind NAT or a firewall in your private IP address space. However with SoftEther VPN you don't have to install VPN Server on a computer with a public IP address. When setting up a VPN network with older VPN protocols such as PPTP or L2TP/IPSec, the VPN server must be a computer with a public IP address to the Internet. (If you can go through a proxy server or change your NAT settings to allow traffic through certain TCP/IP ports to your private IP addresses then that is sufficient.) TCP/IP communication must be possible between the VPN Server and any VPN clients that wish to connect to it.Therefore, a VPN Server must be installed to a location that meets the following requirement: VPN Server Reachability at The TCP/IP LevelĪ VPN Server must deal with connection requests from VPN Clients, VPN Bridges, and, in some situations, from other VPN Servers.
