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Getting L3 IP Routing connection to work

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 5:42 pm
by dorrsr
Hi
Thanks in advance for your help and assistance with this question.

I am not new to setting up VPN environments, but I am very new to the SoftEther software. I would like to get my home and my cabin connected on a VPN site-to-site tunnel via a Raspberry Pi on each end and SoftEther. In order to do this I have built a prototype environment with 2 routers and 2 Pi's each with the SoftEther VPN Server software loaded. After a bit of work I have figured out how to get LAN segment A (10.1.20.x) on one of the Pi's, to connect and authenticate to LAN segment B (10.1.30.x) and visa versa. I created the appropriate port forwarding rules for 5555 and created a single account for authentication.

The problem I have is the 2 virtual IP addresses I created on the L3 IP Router (one for each LAN segment) do not seem to work. I can't ping them locally (the one that is located on the local segment) and when I tell my router to use those addresses to route to the other LAN segment then I cannot ping any addresses at the remote LAN segment. Also I cant access any web servers on the other segment. It is like those virtual addresses are not working or they do not exist. I made sure they do not conflict with any other addresses. On the router/firewall I have not opened up anything for these virtual addresses, because SoftEther should be routing to each of the segments, and the two LAN segments do connect just fine from a SoftEther cascade connection perspective. It seems like the Raspberry Pi is not really creating those virtual IP addresses or looking for traffic for those addresses.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Re: Getting L3 IP Routing connection to work

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 5:50 am
by sky59
Only one server. The other must be bridge.
You have to open all 4 ports, from my memory: 443, 5555, 1944udp?,????

First connect Pis directly together with cable LAN and make it work, use local addresses in number formar, it is accepted