I can now connect to my VPN server from the internet using my Mac and my iPhone, which is very convenient.Ī note for those who aren't too familiar with L2TP over IPSec. It turns out you have to create a bridge between the virtual VPN adapter and the physical adapter of the machine that's running the server. After I setup the virtual VPN host and the L2TP over IPSec tunnel, I could connect and authenticate but then the connection was dropped. There was one catch that I either missed or was neglected in the docs. It even includes a free dynamic dns service, which makes getting up and running very simple. It's open source and completely free (provided by a Japanese university) and available for Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux. I won't detail it here, because they have excellent tutorials that do that.

Installing and configuring it was very simple. I decided to install SoftEther VPN - and use L2TP over IPSec to create a VPN tunnel to my home network. When I connect, no one will be using the computer that the VPN server is running on.

I need to connect remotely to view and manage one security cam. My first post in this forum - discussed my need to find a vpn router.

Softether vpn server install