#379 Fully fonctionnal VPN Server with SoftEtherVPN

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: antoinec... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

It's my time to give back to the community with a VPN server on the snake-os NAS tutorial!

Prerequisite :

A- NAS with ability to chroot in Debian as in post :
https://code.google.com/p/snake-os/wiki/Debian_Chroot

B- A somewhat decent Internet connection (to host the VPN server and download the server files.)

1 - Login to the NAS and go in the debian chroot.

2- Download the ARM version of SoftEtherVPN :

#wget  http://softether-download.com/files/softether/v4.10-9505-beta-2014.10.03-tree/Linux/SoftEther_VPN_Server/32bit_-_ARM_legacy_ABI/softether-vpnserver-v4.10-9505-beta-2014.10.03-linux-arm-32bit.tar.gz

(The file I joined to this post is the one I'm using in case it goes down)

3- Extract the archive :

#tar -xvf softether-vpnserver-v4.10-9505-beta-2014.10.03-linux-arm-32bit.tar.gz

4-Change the sources of Debian to working one :
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list

and add the following lines if not already there so the apt-get will work :

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

5- Install make :
#apt-get install make

6- Install gcc :
#apt-get install gcc

7- Change directory into vpnserver :
#cd vpnserver

8- Compile the software with make :
#make

9- Add permission to vpnserver and vpncmd :
#chmod +x vpnserver
#chmod +x vpncmd

10- Start the server :
#./vpnserver start

The vpnserver is now started.

11- Open vpncmd to manage the server :
#./vpncmd
Issue some enters to gain global access to the server hosted to localhost.

This is it! The server is now manageable thru the vpncmd interface. This interface is for management only, it can be closed at any moment without shutting down the server.

TIP : SoftEtherVPN server is entirely manageable via the graphical Windows "Server Manager". This tool manages a remote SoftEtherVPN server via TCP/IP through a GUI making it easy to configure. It can be found on the SoftetherVPN download page : http://softether-download.com/en.aspx

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This is for the version 9505 (up-to-date as of posting).

Newer version can be found at http://softether-download.com/en.aspx. Make sure to download the SoftEtherVPN server for Linux arch "ARM legacy ABI 32bit"

Leave comments if this isn't working for you or if you got some feedbacks!

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: antoinec... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

If you feel like giving it a try with the GUI, try my guide. The text is in french, but the pictures are self-explanatory (and in English).

http://antoinecampeau.net/vpn/