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VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:12 pm
by deb_user
Hello,

I'm running the latest version of SoftEther VPN Server on Debian 8. I'm using my own DHCP Server (SecureNAT is completely disabled). Everything works fine. But i did not found a way to give a client a fixed IP address, because the VPN server does not give the same MAC address to the client, when the connectuon order of all clients changes. Why is this? Is it even possible to assign a fixed IP to a client with my external DHCP server?

Best Regards

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:53 pm
by deb_user
No one can help?

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 7:57 pm
by deb_user
Is there no way to achieve this?

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:06 am
by thisjun
Please check property of virtual NIC.

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:29 am
by deb_user
Where do i have to check that? On my router (DHCP Server)? My router is a pfSense box.

Best Regards

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:15 am
by thisjun
Please check VPN client (not router).

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:56 am
by deb_user
On the client side i'm using the Windows 10 built-in vpn client.

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:59 am
by deb_user
What do you mean exactly?

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:47 am
by thisjun
L2TP client doesn't report own MAC address to the server.
So the MAC address is generated from session name.

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 2:32 pm
by deb_user
thisjun wrote:
> L2TP client doesn't report own MAC address to the server.
> So the MAC address is generated from session name.

Before i had a openswan Server, where it was possible to set fixed IP's to the usernames, so are you sure, there is no way to achieve this in SoftEther?

Re: VPN Client MAC address assignment

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:04 am
by thisjun
SoftEther VPN server can accept multiple session by one user.
Then, in your way, MAC address will conflict.
If you can handle the problem, please improve the SoftEther VPN code.