Softether Assistance

[mike156]

Hi Guys

I'm probably way out of my league here but as always, its fun to tinker and learn.

We are investigating upgrading our accounting system which will mean all the office branches connecting to a server based in the Durban branch.

All the accounting system requires is access to a shared folder on the network.

I've given Softether a bash and it seems to be a great piece of free software but I have run into an issue whereby once I connect to the server from my client, it seems all traffic is then routed through the Durban office.

How do I go about seperating my internet traffic and the accounting system VPN traffic?

EDIT: Going back through the settings, I realised that I had bridged the LTE modem in.

Unbridging that, fixes the routing of my internet traffic, but now I am unable to access the local LAN that side and any device connected to it.

 

[mike156]

Anybody?

 

[patrick123]

We use OpenVPN, but I assume that Softether should work the same.
We have our main Linux server in Cape Town and the branches throughout SA link to it. Certain branches are connected via a Linksys router running the DD-WRT firmware that has OpenVPN in it. Other users run the Windows version directly on their PC via the Open VPN GUI.
Our server has the VPN IP address 10.7.0.1. My local machine has the IP address 192.168.31.x and it VPN IP address is 10.7.0.x

The command ROUTE PRINT will show you your routing table.
The 0.0.0.0 line is my default route i.e. internet.
The 10.7.x.x lines relate to the VPN network.
The 127.0.0.x lines is the machines local loopback.
The 192.168.31.x is my local network.

I suspect that you have your local network & your VPN network sharing the same IP address range.

IPv4 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0     192.168.31.3    192.168.31.19    281
         10.7.0.0    255.255.255.0        10.7.0.13        10.7.0.14     31
        10.7.0.12  255.255.255.252         On-link         10.7.0.14    286
        10.7.0.14  255.255.255.255         On-link         10.7.0.14    286
        10.7.0.15  255.255.255.255         On-link         10.7.0.14    286
        127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
        127.0.0.1  255.255.255.255         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
  127.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
     192.168.31.0    255.255.255.0         On-link     192.168.31.19    281
    192.168.31.19  255.255.255.255         On-link     192.168.31.19    281
   192.168.31.255  255.255.255.255         On-link     192.168.31.19    281
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link         10.7.0.14    286
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link     192.168.31.19    281
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link         10.7.0.14    286
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link     192.168.31.19    281

 

[mike156]

Thanks very much, when I get a chance I will look into that and see what happens.