SoftEther VPN User Forum

Hi everybody,

I would like to know if it is possible to run multiple SoftEther instances on the same machine?

Thanks in advance,

What OS do you use?
Multiple SoftEther VPN servers can run in usermode.
http://www.softether.org/4-docs/1-manua ... _User_Mode

This is possible, and I'm doing that already, but you need to be aware of port collision. For example l2tp uses port 1701 and this can not be changed.
My advice is. Start both in user mode and use one instance for openvpn and the other instance for L2TP/IPSec

Cheers
Moataz

dhs9004 wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to run multiple SoftEther instances
> on the same machine?
>
> Thanks in advan


Hello there, i would like to know what is the benefit of using several instances at the same time ?



Thanks (:

@raafat

I have the following structure on the server:
Instance1VPN->Proxy->Instance2VPN

I have routers and normal users connected to the vpn.
The routers are connecting to instance 1
The users are connecting to instance 2

I need to filter the traffic coming out of the routers in a certain way. So I use squid proxy on the traffic coming out of instance 1
Traffic coming out of instance 2 goes into the internet unfiltered

moatazelmasry wrote:
> @raafat
>
> I have the following structure on the server:
> Instance1VPN->Proxy->Instance2VPN
>
> I have routers and normal users connected to the vpn.
> The routers are connecting to instance 1
> The users are connecting to instance 2
>
> I need to filter the traffic coming out of the routers in a certain way. So I use
> squid proxy on the traffic coming out of instance 1
> Traffic coming out of instance 2 goes into the internet unfiltered


But why don't you just use two hubs for that purpose ?

I need to use squid proxy server

When I forward the traffic from the vpn server to a proxy, it is not then possible to differentiate between traffic originating from hub and hub2 (as far as I know). So I can not apply my proxy rules only on traffic coming from hub1

moatazelmasry wrote:
> I need to use squid proxy server
>
> When I forward the traffic from the vpn server to a proxy, it is not then
> possible to differentiate between traffic originating from hub and hub2 (as
> far as I know). So I can not apply my proxy rules only on traffic coming
> from hub1

What about VLANs, IP networks ?

What do you mean by ip network??

VLAN would probably have worked fine, but I'm not a network expert, so I just opted for the easy solution :)

moatazelmasry wrote:
> What do you mean by ip network??
>
> VLAN would probably have worked fine, but I'm not a network expert, so I
> just opted for the easy solution :)


What about giving each hub a different IPv4 network ?

Hi rafaat,

Sorry still didn't get around to examine this suggestion. But yes thinking about it, this should actually work out of the box.

Thnx for the tip

Cheers

Happy to hear that from you (:.