Install Softether VPN and create a Destination NAT (D-NAT) Rule to access the private Client VPN Node on a Debian 12 OS Rumi, February 14, 2026February 14, 2026 This installation is a bit long, hence split into 6 chapters. Part I: Install Softether VPN Server on a Freshly Installed Debian Server Part II: Install Webmin Part III: Configuring DNSMasq Part IV: Configuring SoftETher VPN Server using Softether VPN Manager Client Part V: Updating Interfaces Part VI: Iptables Part… Continue Reading
Site to Site (site 2 site a.k.a S2S) VPN using OpenVPN Rumi, October 2, 2025 The video tutorial one is perfect enough. However those who like a textual documents can also undergo the followings- https://openvpn.net/as-docs/tutorials/tutorial–site-to-site-network.html Continue Reading
Use Putty as SOCKS proxy Rumi, October 28, 2023 I’ll need 2 programs to achieve this, assuming you already have access to a Linux box and you can connect using putty client. Need S/w packages are- Putty and SeaMonkey Browser Follow the following steps- Run Putty Goto SSH > Tunnels and configure as required Turn Tick ON- Local port… Continue Reading
Install Softether VPN Client on Linux Rumi, January 28, 2023January 28, 2023 Download and Install SoftEther VPN Client Download SoftEther VPN Client software from their official website (https://www.softether.org). Navigate to Download — > Download SoftEther VPN Click on Download SoftEther VPN link. Select Component : SoftEther VPN Client Select Platform : Linux Select CPU : Select the appropriate CPU from the Drop… Continue Reading
Softether Linux Client using Bridged with Softether VPN Server Rumi, August 2, 2021 It’s assumed that you already have a vpn server deployed in your network, created user, password and enabled bridged network during vpn server configuration. A sample snippet of VPN Server Bridge enabled is below- So here’re the setup value- On Softether Server IP- 103.146.221.30/24 and Gateway- 103.146.221.1 Client Server IP-… Continue Reading
Softether Auto Installer on CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu (Backward compatible edition) Rumi, April 17, 2021 Softether Auto Install Script for multi platforms updated version Softether VPN server latest version v4.27-9666-beta-2018.04.21 Revised to last known stable version due to compilation error from their latest release An open source VPN project from University of Tsukuba Japan Centos 6 or 7 x64 Debian 8 (jessie) (Not compatible for… Continue Reading
Accessing private network using pritunl VPN Rumi, June 30, 2020 This tutorial will describe securing access to a private network using a Pritunl server. The diagram below shows the network topology for this tutorial. First remove the 0.0.0.0/0 route from the server. This route tunnels all internet traffic over the vpn, for this setup only the traffic for the private… Continue Reading
Install Pritunl on Ubuntu 16 Rumi, June 29, 2020 Update your bare-bone and freshly installed Ubuntu 16 system. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Add Pritunl’s APT repository and update the package lists: echo “deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list echo “deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt trusty main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list Add repo keys for apt to validate against apt-key adv –keyserver… Continue Reading
How to Setup a Multi-Protocol VPN Server Using SoftEther Rumi, September 14, 2019 SoftEther VPN is one of the world’s most powerful and easy-to-use multi-protocol VPN software, made by the good folks at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris and is freeware and open-source. You can use SoftEther for any personal or commercial use free… Continue Reading
Setup a Site to Site IPsec VPN With Strongswan and PreShared Key Authentication Rumi, March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 Today we will setup a Site to Site ipsec VPN with Strongswan, which will be configured with PreShared Key Authentication. After our tunnels are established, we will be able to reach the private ips over the vpn tunnels. Get the Dependencies: Update your repository indexes and install strongswan: $ apt… Continue Reading