Softhether VPN

[Blackfish 0]

Anyone tried it? and does Air VPN support Softether VPN? Heard positive things about it and on Softether VPN no WebRTC leaks like on Open VPN 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftEther_VPN

 

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[Kennif 0]

Anyone tried it? and does Air VPN support Softether VPN? Heard positive things about it and on Softether VPN no WebRTC leaks like on Open VPN 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftEther_VPN

 

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Well why don't you try it and tell us the outcome.

[InactiveUser 188]

SoftEther is an interesting project, but it has quite a few factors working against it:

1. Considering that SoftEther is a crypto project, their websites do not inspire confidence:

• F-rated SSL/TLS configuration on their main site
• no SSL/TLS at all on their download site

2. It hasn't been around long enough (~ 2014) - smaller user base, in flux, no code audits

3. SoftEther seemingly tries to support every protocol and feature under the sun, which is nice from a usability standpoint, but horrible from a security and code maintenance perspective. It goes against the current trend in secure software development (compare, for example, LibreSSL's approach)

4. AirVPN encourages exclusive use of FOSS on both servers and clients, whereas SoftEther encourages use of proprietary clients by supporting IPsec and MS-SSTP. I don't see much common ground.

[zhang888 1066]

Also last time I checked the server management software was Windows only, which is a huge miss.

I understand where it might come from, after all there are many "Windows only" protocols such as SSTP,

but it makes the entire project less attractive until they decide to fix it.

 

However, it might be a good solution as a client-only mode, especially in case you use a VPN provider that does

not release an open-source client software. Naked OpenVPN is lacking many features on a desktop.

[framura 0]

Hi,

 

Resume this (old) thread, adding some considerations.

 

From my point of view, OpenVPN protocol (or better actual implementation) suffers of two limits:

 

1) Time spent to switch between kernel and user space

2) Mono thread

 

These two problems make it unsuitable to support high performance connections: with Softether I think, or better I hope, these two limits should be eliminated: next week I will create a Softether VPN Server and I will try it with Softether client (protocol SSL-VPN), trying to compare my openvpn connection with SoftEther connection.

 

What do you think?

[zhang888 1066]

Hi,

 

Resume this (old) thread, adding some considerations.

 

From my point of view, OpenVPN protocol (or better actual implementation) suffers of two limits:

 

1) Time spent to switch between kernel and user space

2) Mono thread

 

These two problems make it unsuitable to support high performance connections: with Softether I think, or better I hope, these two limits should be eliminated: next week I will create a Softether VPN Server and I will try it with Softether client (protocol SSL-VPN), trying to compare my openvpn connection with SoftEther connection.

 

What do you think?

 

Wrong.

Kernel and User space context switching takes nano-seconds, this is not a significant performance gain if at all.

Regarding the performance gain if multi-core is implemented, I haven't yet seen a benchmark of SoftEther on both sides

vs OpenVPN on both sides using the same link.

[framura 0]

 

Hi,

 

Resume this (old) thread, adding some considerations.

 

From my point of view, OpenVPN protocol (or better actual implementation) suffers of two limits:

 

1) Time spent to switch between kernel and user space

2) Mono thread

 

These two problems make it unsuitable to support high performance connections: with Softether I think, or better I hope, these two limits should be eliminated: next week I will create a Softether VPN Server and I will try it with Softether client (protocol SSL-VPN), trying to compare my openvpn connection with SoftEther connection.

 

What do you think?

 

Wrong.

Kernel and User space context switching takes nano-seconds, this is not a significant performance gain if at all.

Regarding the performance gain if multi-core is implemented, I haven't yet seen a benchmark of SoftEther on both sides

vs OpenVPN on both sides using the same link.

 

 

Me neither: I would to try these three case studies (I will use a dedicated server):

 

1) OpenVPN Server - OpenVPN client

2) Softether Server - Softether Client

3) Softether server - OpenVPN client

 

What do you think?

 

P.S.: another interesting VPN project, www.wireguard.io (not yet ready)

[zhang888 1066]

This will be interesting, please check according to this reference:

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Gigabit_Networks_Linux