SoftEther VPN User Forum

It's wrong to say VPN Bridge serves no purpose as a stand-alone program.

https://www.softether.org/4-docs/1-manual/9/9.4

Reasons:

1.A PC in a LAN which do not need to access a actual remote VPN Server virtual HUB[cascade connection in virtual HUB BRIDGE should be none and empty],it just need very low level and basic Layer 2 functions within that LAN ONLY. [You can optionally Enable / Disable Virtual NAT/DHCP on this local softether local hub BRIDGE]

2.In windows,if you do not want to interact too much with the buggy windows local connection manager using windows network bridge API,it's 100% fine to replace layer 2 functions SOLELY with softether bridge software ALL TOGETHER,which means eliminating all the need to rely on windows network bridge API,it just very low level layer 2 function inside your LAN network.

3.After all layer 2 is just layer 2,no IP addressing is ever handled at all,Layer 2 deals with MAC addresses ONLY,so softether bridge requires zero configs if you just want to use your local PC to acts as a low level Layer 2 device in LAN

It's just Layer 2！

Layer 2！Layer 2！Layer 2！

Don't get tricked into configuring complicated windows services like NIC teaming windows bridge netsh etc and so on

SoftEther VPN Bridge.exe is ALL it needed , just install it and run and it's done！
So easy to understand and not misleading correct?

Just as the name local bridge suggests,take a note on the word LOCAL,which means it's a locally running program on my 127.0.0.1 PC

As vpn_bridge.exe is running on this locally 127.0.0.1 PC,this 127.0.0.1 PC becames a layer 2 device

VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND,isn't it?

NOT EVEN A SINGLE VPN SESSION is needed for such a very easy setup

ANY NICs on this computer = A Virtual HUB

Easy to remember right?