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I have beeen looking at setting up a vpn to be able to hook up my pc to the office network. I don't know a whole lot about it but I ended up trying out Softethe
by tenant 7y ago
I have beeen looking at setting up a vpn to be able to hook up my pc to the office network. I don't know a whole lot about it but I ended up trying out Softether for the job just this weekend. It's a free and opensource project from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. It promises that it can achieve speeds far higher than Openvpn.
It was really just a click next, next type setup both on client and server which was the reason I went for it over openvpn which seemed more complicated and would require me to handle DNS stuff etc.
I was impressed that I was able to get it up and run a desktop application designed for a local network with a minimal increase in lagginess.
I'd value the opinions of people more knowledgeable than I who may have tried it.
- dfc 7y agoIt looks like softether is just a management GUI / framework that handles a bunch of different underlying VPN products/standards? The README says the following are supported "SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP by the single SoftEther VPN Server program." Looking at the documentation for client setup it looks like you just setup an IPSEC client.
- saltspork 7y agoI believe SoftEther has its own userspace implementation of all of these protocols + NAT.
- eyegor 7y agoCertainly not an expert but I switched from openvpn to softether for personal use back in 2015-16 out of curiosity, saw substantially lower latency. I see openvpn as the samba of vpn servers. Huge hassle to configure for performance, so much history that searching when you have issues is difficult.
- tenant 7y agoGlad to hear of someone using it for a while and who's impressed with it. I've only used it a very little bit but I was very impressed, I think I'm going to dive into it deeper now.