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SoftEther VPN is one of the most powerful and easiest VPN software in the world. It is freeware, developed as an academic research project in University of Tsukuba, Japan.
You can download binaries of SoftEther VPN today. SoftEther VPN is planned to be released as an open-source in the middle of 2013. The license will be GPL (Gnu Public License). We are now working to "brush-up" the source code, and translating comments into English, before publishing the source code.
Walkthrough
Read the walkthrough to grasp the key features and advantages of SoftEther rapidly.
Features
Freeware.
(Become open-source in mid 2013.)- Easy to establish both remote-access and site-to-site VPN.
- SSL-VPN Tunneling on HTTPS to pass through NATs and firewalls.
- Revolutionary VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS features.
- Resistance to highly-restricted firewall.
- Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (L3) over VPN.
- Embedded dynamic-DNS and NAT-traversal so that no static nor fixed IP address is required.
- AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryptions.
- Sufficient security features such as logging and firewall inner VPN tunnel.
- 1Gbps-class high-speed throughput performance with low memory and CPU usage.
- Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone are supported as a VPN client.
- SSL-VPN (HTTPS) and 6 major VPN protocols (OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP) are all supported as VPN tunneling underlay protocols.
- The OpenVPN clone function supports legacy OpenVPN clients.
- IPv4 / IPv6 dual-stack.
- The VPN server runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
- Configure All settings on GUI.
- Multi-languages (English, Japanese and Simplified-Chinese).
- More details at Specification.
Screen Shots
SoftEther VPN consists of VPN Client, VPN Server and VPN Bridge.
SoftEther VPN Client
SoftEther VPN Server and Bridge
