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Table of contents

1. 1.What is SoftEther VPN
2. 2.Architecture of SoftEther VPN
3. 3.How to Use SoftEther VPN ?
4. 4.Ad-hoc VPN
5. 5.LAN to LAN Bridge
6. 6.Remote Access to LAN
7. 7.Join a Local PC into Cloud
8. 8.Join a Cloud VM into LAN
9. 9.Cloud to LAN Bridge VPN
10. 10.Cloud to Cloud Bridge VPN
11. 11.iPhone and Android
12. 12.Windows and Mac Laptops
13. 13.Remote Management
14. 14.Building Your Own Cloud
15. 15.VPN for Network Testing, Simulation and Debugging
16. 16.Remote Access
17. 17.Comfortable Network Anywhere
18. 18.Dynamic DNS and NAT Traversal
19. 19.VPN Azure
20. 20.Penetrates Firewall by SSL-VPN
21. 21.Replacements of Cisco or other hardware-based VPNs
22. 22.Replacements of OpenVPN
23. 23.Screenshots

OpenVPN for Android. This app uses the 'OpenVPN for Android' app to connect to the servers. OpenVPN for Android is a free, secure, open source OpenVPN client. Download: Google Play » APKMirror » F-Droid » VPN Gate. Nothing is free! Except when it is. All servers in the app are hosted by volunteers of the VPN Gate project of University of. Connect to 6000+ active VPN servers with L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, MS-SSTP or SSL-VPN protocol. Academic project by University of Tsukuba, free of charge. VPN Gate - Public Free VPN Cloud by Univ of Tsukuba, Japan. Access Server pricing is based on the needed number of simultaneous VPN connections, which means you only pay for what you need. With our subscription model, users can share keys across multiple servers, quickly scale connections up or down to maximize their usage and streamline the overheads of maintaining a secure network. OpenVPN® Community Edition provides a full-featured open source SSL/TLS Virtual Private Network (VPN). The TurnKey Linux VPN software appliance leverages the open source 'openvpn-server', 'openvpn-client' and 'easy-rsa' software (developed by OpenVPN® Inc.) to support 'site-to-site' or 'gateway' access.

VPN Gate Client download (for Windows, freeware) Simply install VPN Gate Client Plugin to SoftEther VPN Client. It will enable you to connect to any of our Public VPN Relay Servers of VPN Gate in a snap. It has a better throughput than L2TP, OpenVPN or SSTP.

SoftEther VPN Project develops and distributes SoftEther VPN,
An Open-Source Free ​Cross-platform Multi-protocol VPN Program,
as an academic project from University of Tsukuba, under the Apache License 2.0.

• SE201901: CVE-2019-11868: SoftEther VPN Server NDIS 5.x Windows Local Bridge Driver Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (July 9, 2019)
• Added the SoftEther VPN Server JSON-RPC API Suite implementation. (July 7, 2019)
  The API Suite allows you to easily develop your original SoftEther VPN Server management application to control the VPN Server (e.g. creating users, adding Virtual Hubs, disconnecting a specified VPN sessions) from JavaScript, TypeScript, C# or other languages.
  
• Added the Embedded HTML5-based Modern Admin Console. (July 7, 2019)

What is SoftEther VPN

SoftEther VPN('SoftEther' means 'Software Ethernet') is one of the world's most powerful and easy-to-use multi-protocol VPN software. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris.

SoftEther VPN is open source. You can use SoftEther for any personal or commercial use for free charge.

SoftEther VPN is an optimum alternative to OpenVPN and Microsoft's VPN servers. SoftEther VPN has a clone-function of OpenVPN Server. You can integrate from OpenVPN to SoftEther VPN smoothly. SoftEther VPN is faster than OpenVPN. SoftEther VPN also supports Microsoft SSTP VPN for Windows Vista / 7 / 8. No more need to pay expensive charges for Windows Server license for Remote-Access VPN function.

SoftEther VPN can be used to realize BYOD (Bring your own device) on your business. If you have smartphones, tablets or laptop PCs, SoftEther VPN's L2TP/IPsec server function will help you to establish a remote-access VPN from your local network. SoftEther VPN's L2TP VPN Server has strong compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

SoftEther VPN is not only an alternative VPN server to existing VPN products (OpenVPN, IPsec and MS-SSTP). SoftEther VPN has also original strong SSL-VPN protocol to penetrate any kinds of firewalls. Ultra-optimized SSL-VPN Protocol of SoftEther VPN has very fast throughput, low latency and firewall resistance.

SoftEther VPN has strong resistance against firewalls than ever. Built-in NAT-traversal penetrates your network admin's troublesome firewall for overprotection. You can setup your own VPN server behind the firewall or NAT in your company, and you can reach to that VPN server in the corporate private network from your home or mobile place, without any modification of firewall settings. Any deep-packet inspection firewalls cannot detect SoftEther VPN's transport packets as a VPN tunnel, because SoftEther VPN uses Ethernet over HTTPS for camouflage.

Easy to imagine, design and implement your VPN topology with SoftEther VPN. It virtualizes Ethernet by software-enumeration. SoftEther VPN Client implements Virtual Network Adapter, and SoftEther VPN Server implements Virtual Ethernet Switch. You can easily build both Remote-Access VPN and Site-to-Site VPN, as expansion of Ethernet-based L2 VPN. Of course, traditional IP-routing L3 based VPN can be built by SoftEther VPN.

SoftEther VPN has strong compatibility to today's most popular VPN products among the world. It has the interoperability with OpenVPN, L2TP, IPsec, EtherIP, L2TPv3, Cisco VPN Routers and MS-SSTP VPN Clients. SoftEther VPN is the world's only VPN software which supports SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, L2TP, EtherIP, L2TPv3 and IPsec, as a single VPN software.

SoftEther VPN is free software because it was developed as Daiyuu Nobori's Master Thesis research in the University. You can download and use it from today. The source-code of SoftEther VPN is available under the Apache License 2.0.

Features of SoftEther VPN

• Free and open-source software.
• Easy to establish both remote-access and site-to-site VPN.
• SSL-VPN Tunneling on HTTPS to pass through NATs and firewalls.
• Revolutionary VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS features.
• Resistance to highly-restricted firewall.
• Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (L3) over VPN.
• Embedded dynamic-DNS and NAT-traversal so that no static nor fixed IP address is required.
• AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryptions.
• Sufficient security features such as logging and firewall inner VPN tunnel.
• 1Gbps-class high-speed throughput performance with low memory and CPU usage.
• Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Mobile are supported.
• SSL-VPN (HTTPS) and 6 major VPN protocols (OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP) are all supported as VPN tunneling underlay protocols.
• The OpenVPN clone function supports legacy OpenVPN clients.
• IPv4 / IPv6 dual-stack.
• The VPN server runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
• Configure All settings on GUI.
• Multi-languages (English, Japanese and Simplified-Chinese).
• No memory leaks. High quality stable codes, intended for long-term runs. We always verify that there are no memory or resource leaks before releasing the build.
• RADIUS / NT Domain user authentication function
• RSA certificate authentication function
• Deep-inspect packet logging function
• Source IP address control list function
• syslog transfer function
• More details at Specification.

Architecture of SoftEther VPN

Virtualization of Ethernet devices is the key of the SoftEther VPN architecture. SoftEther VPN virtualizes Ethernet devices in order to realize a flexible virtual private network for both remote-access VPN and site-to-site VPN. SoftEther VPN implements the Virtual Network Adapter program as a software-emulated traditional Ethernet network adapter. SoftEther VPN implements the Virtual Ethernet Switch program (called Virtual Hub) as a software-emulated traditional Ethernet switch. SoftEther VPN implements VPN Session as a software-emulated Ethernet cable between the network adapter and the switch.

You can create one or many Virtual Hub with SoftEther VPN on your server computer. This server computer will become a VPN server, which accepts VPN connection requests from VPN client computers.

You can create one or many Virtual Network Adapter with SoftEther VPN on your client computer. This client computer will become a VPN client, which establishes a VPN connections to the Virtual Hub on the VPN server.

You can establish VPN sessions, as called 'VPN tunnels', between VPN clients and VPN servers. A VPN session is the virtualized network cable. A VPN session is realized over a TCP/IP connection. The signals through the VPN session is encrypted by SSL. Therefore, you can safely establish a VPN session beyond the Internet. A VPN session is established by SoftEther VPN's 'VPN over HTTPS' technology. It means that SoftEther VPN can create a VPN connection beyond any kinds of firewalls and NATs.

The Virtual Hub exchanges all Ethernet packets from each connected VPN session to other connected sessions. The behavior is same to traditional Ethernet switches. The Virtual Hub has a FDB (forwarding database) to optimize the transmission of Ethernet frames.

You can define a local bridge between the Virtual Hub and the existing physical Ethernet segment by using the Local Bridge function. The Local Bridge exchanges packets between the physical Ethernet adapter and the Virtual Hub. You can realize a remote-access VPN from home or mobile to the company network by using the Local Bridge function.

You can define a cascading connection between two or more remote Virtual Hubs. With cascading, you can integrate two or more remote Ethernet segments to a single Ethernet segment. For example, after you establish cascading connections between the site A, B and C, then any computers in the site A will be able to communicate with the computers in the site B and the site C. This is a site-to-site VPN.

SoftEther VPN can also establish a VPN session over UDP. The UDP-mode of SoftEther VPN supports NAT traversal. The NAT traversal function allows the VPN server behind existing NATs or firewalls to accept incoming VPN sessions. You need no network administrator's special permission before setting up a VPN server on the company network behind firewalls or NATs. Additionally, SoftEther VPN Server may be placed on the dynamic IP address environment since SoftEther VPN has built-in Dynamic DNS (DDNS) function.

SoftEther VPN Server supports additional VPN protocols, including L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, Microsoft SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP. These realizes the interoperability with built-in L2TP/IPsec VPN clients on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Mac OS X, and also with Cisco's VPN routers and other vendors VPN products.

How to Use SoftEther VPN ?

SoftEther VPN is an essential infrastructure to build-up IT systems on enterprises and small-businesses.

SoftEther VPN can build-up flexible and dependable virtual network around Clouds. Amazon EC2, Windows Azure and most of other Clouds are supporting SoftEther VPN.

SoftEther VPN supports several mobile devices including iPhone and Android. Your smartphone is now a part of your on-premise or Cloud network by using SoftEther VPN.

SoftEther VPN is also an ultra-convenient tool for effective system management by IT professionals on enterprises and system integrators.

SoftEther VPN is also convenient for home users. You can be proud of using enterprise-class VPN for your home-use.

Does your network administrator hesitates to assign you a global IP address? Or Does your company has a firewall on the border between the private network and the Internet? No problem! SoftEther VPN has a strong function to penetrate troublesome corporate firewalls.

IPsec-based VPN protocols which are developed on 1990's are now obsoleted. IPsec-based VPN are not familiar with most of firewalls, NATs or proxies. Unlike IPsec-based VPN, SoftEther VPN is familiar with any kind of firewalls. Additionally SoftEther VPN requires no expensive Cisco or other hardware devices. You can replace your Cisco or OpenVPN to SoftEther VPN today.

Screenshots

SoftEther VPN consists of three software: VPN Client, VPN Server and VPN Bridge.

SoftEther VPN Client

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SoftEther VPN Server Admin Tool

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Whether it's for work or personal use, you can connect to a virtual private network (VPN) on your Windows 10 PC. A VPN connection can help provide a more secure connection and access to your company's network and the internet, for example, when you’re working from a coffee shop or similar public place.

Create a VPN profile

Before you can connect to a VPN, you must have a VPN profile on your PC. You can either create a VPN profile on your own or set up a work account to get a VPN profile from your company.

Before you start:

• If it’s for work, look for VPN settings or a VPN app on your company’s intranet site while you’re at work, or contact your company's support person.

• If it’s for a VPN service you subscribe to for personal use, visit the Microsoft Store to see if there’s an app for that service, then go to the VPN service’s website to see if the VPN connection settings to use are listed there.

1. Select the Start button, then select Settings > Network & Internet > VPN > Add a VPN connection.

2. In Add a VPN connection, do the following:

   • For VPN provider, choose Windows (built-in).

   • In the Connection name box, enter a name you'll recognize (for example, My Personal VPN). This is the VPN connection name you'll look for when connecting.

   • In the Server name or address box, enter the address for the VPN server.

   • For VPN type, choose the type of VPN connection you want to create. You’ll need to know which kind of VPN connection your company or VPN service uses.

   • For Type of sign-in info, choose the type of sign-in info (or credentials) to use. This might be a username and password, one-time password, certificate, or a smart card if you’re connecting to a VPN for work. Enter your username and password in the respective boxes (if required).

3. Select Save.

4. If you need to edit the VPN connection info or specify additional settings, such as proxy settings, choose the VPN connection and then select Advanced options.

Connect to a VPN

When you have a VPN profile, you’re ready to connect.

1. On the far right of the taskbar, select the Network icon (either or ).

2. Select the VPN connection you want to use, then do either of the following depending on what happens when you select the VPN connection:

   • If the Connect button displays under the VPN connection, select Connect.

   • If the VPN section in Settings opens, select the VPN connection there, then select Connect.

3. If you're prompted, enter your username and password or other sign-in info.

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When connected, the VPN connection name will display Connected underneath it. To see if you’re connected to the VPN while you’re doing things on your PC, select the Network icon (either or ) on the far right of the taskbar, then see if the VPN connection says Connected.