In order to compile SoftEther, the following tools and packages must be installed on your server: The package used in this tutorial is named softether-vpnserver-v2.00-938.09. so we will extract it using the command below: tar xzvf softether-vpnserver-v2.00-938.09.Īfter extracting it, a directory named vpnserver will be created in the working folder. Now we have to extract the package we received from the SoftEther download page and compile it. After the file is saved, we can press “Q” to quit Lynx and move on with the installation.
Finally download the tar file from the next page by pressing the “D” key on the link, and choose “Save to disk” when asked by Lynx. Depending on your server hardware architecture, choose a package the 32bit - Intel x86 and 64bit - Intel 圆4 or AMD64 work for DigitalOcean 32bit or 64bit droplets. Now choose Linux and in the next page choose SoftEther VPN Server. Choose which version you want (in this tutorial we use v2.00-938.09.16) and then press Enter to go to the link. This page contains all versions of the SoftEther available. Now using the command below browse the SoftEther download webpage: lynx Alternatively, you can use a terminal based web browser such as lynx to browse the SoftEther website and download the right package.
There are a couple of ways of dealing with this: First, browse their website on your own computer and then depending on your server configuration (OS, x86/圆4, etc.) find the link to the appropriate package then use wget to download the package to your server. Therefore you have to browse their website using a desktop browser to download the package. Unfortunately, there is no way of getting the latest version through package managers (or even using a single url) at the moment. You can download the latest SoftEther server package for Linux from their website: Using the command below, update and upgrade your server software packages to the latest version:ĭebian / Ubuntu: apt-get update & apt-get upgrade Personally I have tried it on Ubuntu, CentOS and Fedora, both 32 and 64 bit editions, and it has worked perfectly.
As mentioned in SoftEther’s website, SoftEther will work on almost every Linux distro with kernel v2.4 or above, however it’s recommended to choose one of these distributions: CentOS, Fedora, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Step 1: Create a Virtual Serverįirst, you need to create a DigitalOcean Droplet. You can use SoftEther for any personal or commercial use free of charge. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris and is freeware and open-source. 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. We enable and configure OpenVPN and L2TP over IPSec and SSTP VPN Servers on Linux. This article explains how to install and configure a multi-protocol VPN server using the SoftEther package.
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