In the following example, the gateway is: 192.168.0.1. Please note down the gateway IPv4 address, we will need it in step 2. Find the local gateway of your system by running the command: sudo netstat -rn. Run the following command in terminal: sysctl -p.

Open the file /etc/nf in an editor (e.g.Otherwise, you need to enable IP forwarding in /etc/nf file. If it returns ‘1’, then IP forwarding is enabled and you are good to go to Step 1. Note: To check if IP forwarding is enabled, open terminal window, and run the following command: Make sure that IP forwarding is enabled in your system.Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.) machine.Note: If you don’t know the VPN Server Host IPv4 address, then you can easily find it using the command “nslookup ”, or simply visit the website ( ). VPN connection configurations (VPN Server Host name, Port and IPv4 address etc.).Below I have mentioned the steps needed to properly set up the SoftEther VPN Client on Ubuntu / Linux. The scripts are available at my git repository here. To make things easier, I have written bash scripts to easily configure, connect/disconnect VPN.

Only the command line tool is available to configure and connect to the VPN server, which is quite a complicated process. If for any reason, you have to use the SoftEther VPN Client on Linux / Ubuntu environment then you would have noticed that right now there is no UI interface available by SoftEther VPN client for Linux environment.

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