SoftEther VPN on AWS
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:08 pm
Hi folks,
I'm new to SoftEtherVPN. I have set it up on AWS EC2 (public instance), however after connecting via L2TP/IPSec with my mac, I'm unable to reach the VPN host's IP, as well as other EC2 instances that are reachable from VPN server (I've double checked the security groups, firewalls etc. that's not the issue I promise). I don't want to use SecureNAT (I've succeeded in configuring it but it's slow for my use case), and I'm aware that I cannot use local bridge because AWS doesn't allow promiscuous mode for it's network interfaces. Are there any other options? Is everybody just using SecureNAT when deploying on AWS?
Funny thing is, I can accomplish my goal when connecting from a windows machine via SoftEther client. I've set up local VPN client on the VPN server as specified in this guide https://www.softether.org/4-docs/2-howt ... into_Cloud; and also disabled source/destination check option from AWS console. If this method is working, then what's up with L2TP/IPSec?
I'm new to SoftEtherVPN. I have set it up on AWS EC2 (public instance), however after connecting via L2TP/IPSec with my mac, I'm unable to reach the VPN host's IP, as well as other EC2 instances that are reachable from VPN server (I've double checked the security groups, firewalls etc. that's not the issue I promise). I don't want to use SecureNAT (I've succeeded in configuring it but it's slow for my use case), and I'm aware that I cannot use local bridge because AWS doesn't allow promiscuous mode for it's network interfaces. Are there any other options? Is everybody just using SecureNAT when deploying on AWS?
Funny thing is, I can accomplish my goal when connecting from a windows machine via SoftEther client. I've set up local VPN client on the VPN server as specified in this guide https://www.softether.org/4-docs/2-howt ... into_Cloud; and also disabled source/destination check option from AWS console. If this method is working, then what's up with L2TP/IPSec?