Setting up softether VPN

ginner159

Hello all, loooong time since i been on here, just wanting a little advice.

So im going to up my geek cred and setup a VPN based on SoftEther (ive looked at OpenVPN.. meh)

Just wondering if what you people believe to be an acceptable server to run it on. It will be the only thing running on it and will probably have 10 devices connected at any one time most likely streaming netflix or uploading websites

Cheers

TarZZ92

you need a good strong CPU for higher encryption options, no crappy old L Series CPU's, E3 or E5 should be fine

ginner159

@TarZZ92 said:
you need a good strong CPU for higher encryption options, no crappy old L Series CPU's, E3 or E5 should be fine

what sort of ram do you think id be looking at? Just realised id forgot id be setting this up in a VPS

TarZZ92

ginner159 said: what sort of ram do you think id be looking at? Just realised id forgot id be setting this up in a VPS

RAM is not much a problem for Softether. 256-512mb should be fine

ginner159

so then the next inevitable question anyone you can recommend? will be looking for one in the UK (used as main) and one in US (mainly netflix streaming)

TarZZ92

ginner159 said: so then the next inevitable question anyone you can recommend? will be looking for one in the UK (used as main) and one in US (mainly netflix streaming)

Personally for the US i use dacentec, for UK onepoundwebhosting and for other eu runabove

Steven_F

We've got a great network in New Jersey, which would be perfect for someone in the UK.

Falzo

recommend 512 MB for use with softether, depends on what protocols you want to use, and how many concurrent connections there will be, but will work with 256 MB or less

# pidof vpnserver |xargs ps -o rss,sz,vsz
  RSS    SZ    VSZ
   64  4182  16728
 2416 44961 179844
# pidof dnsmasq |xargs ps -o rss,sz,vsz
  RSS    SZ    VSZ
  344  6955  27820

boltvm in new jersey works well from europe, for uk you may want to look at arubacloud...

foxez

Softether work with 32-64mb ram without any issues Got it running on a 64mb ram box, currently using 16mb ram, no users connected.

inthecloudblog

Is there any auto installer script for softether? I've installed it manually in the past but I think I forgot something .

Jonchun

@inthecloudblog said:
Is there any auto installer script for softether? I've installed it manually in the past but I think I forgot something .

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-a-multi-protocol-vpn-server-using-softether

this works great for me.

TarZZ92

These 2 where quite good for me , i believe a member here owns this blog

http://blog.lincoln.hk/blog/2013/03/19/softether-on-vps/

http://blog.lincoln.hk/blog/2013/05/17/softether-on-vps-using-local-bridge/

netomx

@TarZZ92 said:
These 2 where quite good for me , i believe a member here owns this blog

http://blog.lincoln.hk/blog/2013/03/19/softether-on-vps/

http://blog.lincoln.hk/blog/2013/05/17/softether-on-vps-using-local-bridge/

This one. Pretty easy and works great!

inthecloudblog

Thanks guys

Nomad

Just don't use SecureNAT, install dnsmasq and be done with it. SecureNAT is a resource hog.

Jonchun

@Nomad said:
Just don't use SecureNAT, install dnsmasq and be done with it. SecureNAT is a resource hog.

How much of a difference are you talking about?

Nomad

Like when there's a few users SecureNAT using 90% of the CPU whereas on the same system with dnsmasq you don't even check your htop kinda difference.

ginner159

there will be like 10 devices connected at once but not always streaming. like my phone just in my pocket etc

Falco33

Softether works fine on a Raspberry pi, it should run easily with 128mb of ram.
I like the different protocols softether support and it's really easy to manage.

TarZZ92

ginner159 said: there will be like 10 devices connected at once but not always streaming. like my phone just in my pocket etc

then you have not much a choice, use E3 or E5