Softether have long been proprietary product under name PacketX and it has been open sourced just several years ago. Choice of open source VPN packages is long but today we decided to try Softether coming from University of Tsukuba in Japan. It virtualizes Ethernet by software-enumeration.Setting up your own virtual private network server is a good way to evade blockage and be able to access sites that are blocked in your country.

Remote-Access VPN and Site-to-Site VPN - Design and implement your VPN topology with SoftEther VPN.

Built-in NAT-traversal - You can set up your own VPN server behind the firewall or NAT in your company, and you can reach that VPN server in the corporate private network from your home or remote office, without any modification of firewall settings.SoftEther VPN is an optimum alternative to OpenVPN and Microsoft's VPN servers.The VPN server runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.The OpenVPN clone function supports legacy OpenVPN clients.1Gbps-class high-speed throughput performance with low memory and CPU usage.User authentication with X.509 client certificate.User authentication with RADIUS and NT domain controllers.Sufficient security features such as logging and firewall inner VPN tunnel.AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryptions.Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (元) over VPN.Resistance to the highly-restricted firewall.Revolutionary VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS features.SSL-VPN Tunneling on HTTPS to pass through NATs and firewalls.Easy to establish both remote-access and site-to-site VPN.Supporting all popular VPN protocols by the single VPN server: SSL-VPN (HTTPS) OpenVPN IPsec L2TP MS-SSTP L2TPv3 EtherIP.

hardened this SotftEther VPN Server Image to meet all security and enterprise standards and provide you with the instantaneous deployment of VPN Server in EC2 Environments. This Image comes with a pre-configured and maintained SoftEther VPN Server that has been pre-test for readiness to work and compatibility with AWS Cloud. It listens and accepts connections from VPN Client or VPN Bridge with several VPN protocols. SoftEther VPN Server implements the VPN server function.

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