SoftetherVPN-docker

This container is designed to be as small as possible and host a SoftEther VPN Server It´s based on Alpine so resulting Image is kept as small as 15MB!

Not working

• bridging to a physical Ethernet adapter

working

• OpenVPN
• L2tp
• SSL
• SecureNAT

Available Tags

Image	Description
softethervpn/vpnserver:stable	Latest stable release from https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable
softethervpn/vpnserver:v4.39-9772-beta	Tagged build
softethervpn/vpnserver:latest	Latest commits from https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

You should always specify your wanted version like softethervpn/vpnserver:5.02.5180

Usage docker run

This will keep your config and Logfiles in the docker volume softetherdata

docker run -d --rm --name softether-vpn-server -v softetherdata:/mnt -p 443:443/tcp -p 992:992/tcp -p 1194:1194/udp -p 5555:5555/tcp -p 500:500/udp -p 4500:4500/udp -p 1701:1701/udp --cap-add NET_ADMIN softethervpn/vpnserver:stable

Port requirements

As there are different operating modes for SoftetherVPN there is a variety of ports that might or might not be needed. For operation with Softether Clients at least 443, 992 or 5555 is needed. See https://www.softether.org/4-docs/1-manual/1/1.6 for reference on the Softether ports. Others are commented out in the docker-compose example.

Usage docker-compose

The same command can be achieved by docker-compose, the docker compose file is in the repository

version: '3'

services:
  softether:
    image: softethervpn/vpnserver:latest
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    restart: always
    ports:
      - # 53:53         #DNS tunneling
      - 443:443         #Management and HTTPS tunneling
      - 992:992         #HTTPS tunneling
      - # 1194:1194/udp #OpenVPN 
      - 5555:5555       #HTTPS tunneling
      - # 500:500/udp   #IPsec/L2TP
      - # 4500:4500/udp #IPsec/L2TP
      - # 1701:1701/udp #IPsec/L2TP
    volumes:
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
      - "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro"
      - "./softether_data:/var/lib/softether"
      - "./softether_log:/var/log/softether"
      # - "./adminip.txt:/var/lib/softether/adminip.txt:ro"

Use vpncmd

With newer releases vpncmd is directly in the container so you can use it to configure the vpnserver. You can can run it once the container is running :

docker exec -it softether-vpn-server vpncmd

Building

docker build --target vpnclient -t softethevpn:latest .