Server on Virtualbox, can't configure ports/ip
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:19 pm
Hi everyone,
I am running softether server on a virtualbox instance of Centos7 which is itself running on a Mac running mojave. Softether itself seems to be running ok, but I am having issues with the IP address/port setup. I have been following this tutorial and got to the end of step 9. I only want the L2tp ipsec setup for my phone and computers, so I am skipping the openvpn setup. I moved on to the client setup step and am getting stuck at the section:
Then enter your SoftEther VPN server's IP and Port number.
The port number could be any port that you have set as listening on your server.
By default, SoftEther listens on these four ports: 443, 992, 1194, 5555.
Here as an example where we use port 443:
I know that the virtualbox has a connection out to the internet, because i can search google with lynx, and I have set up the virtualbox as a bridged connection so (and please correct me if this is wrong) port forwarding is not necessary and not even allowed. I have set the promiscuous mode to "allow VMs" and I am wondering if I need to set it to "allow all" instead. I also am wondering what I could be doing wrong with the IP address. I am using the address that appears after "inet" when I run $ip addr in centos. It has a /24 after it and I am unsure what to do with that. I tried starting the server using
and the "let's get started by accessing the following url from your pc" wasn't loading from lynx on the virtualbox or from safari on my mac that is hosting the vb.
I also attempted to connect to the vpn from my phone's built in client using that IP address from $ip addr, the my user/password I created, and the shared secret I created. This would hang for a bit and then be unsuccessful/disconnect. What could I be missing in the server setup, the network config, virtualbox settings, anything? I don't know what the next move to try and fix this should be.
I am running softether server on a virtualbox instance of Centos7 which is itself running on a Mac running mojave. Softether itself seems to be running ok, but I am having issues with the IP address/port setup. I have been following this tutorial and got to the end of step 9. I only want the L2tp ipsec setup for my phone and computers, so I am skipping the openvpn setup. I moved on to the client setup step and am getting stuck at the section:
Then enter your SoftEther VPN server's IP and Port number.
The port number could be any port that you have set as listening on your server.
By default, SoftEther listens on these four ports: 443, 992, 1194, 5555.
Here as an example where we use port 443:
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Destination VPN Server Host Name and Port Number: [VPN Server IP Address]:443
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./vpnserver start
I also attempted to connect to the vpn from my phone's built in client using that IP address from $ip addr, the my user/password I created, and the shared secret I created. This would hang for a bit and then be unsuccessful/disconnect. What could I be missing in the server setup, the network config, virtualbox settings, anything? I don't know what the next move to try and fix this should be.