Under special circumstances or when the user wants to create a bridge connection between the Virtual Network Adapter and physical network adapter on the VPN Client side, a bridge connection can be created in the same way as the Virtual Network Adapter of SoftEther 1.0 (older version). (For details, please refer to 3.6 Local Bridges.)Because the performance of the local bridge connection function of VPN Server / VPN Bridge is the same as or better than that when using VPN Client together with the bridge connection function of Windows XP or later, normally, there is no need to use the bridge connection function on the client side. In SoftEther VPN, the user can create a local bridge connection between a Virtual Hub and an existing physical LAN with the functions provided in VPN Server and VPN Bridge. In SoftEther 1.0 (older version), it was possible to connect a virtual network to a physical network using the Windows function to create a bridge connection between the Virtual Network Adapter and physical network adapter.
CREATE A VIRTUAL NETWORK ADAPTER WINDOWS 10 MAC
(No hyphens or colons are required.)Ī 4-byte value that consists of "00:AC" (fixed) followed by a random number is used as the initial MAC address.Ĥ.3.4 Bridge Connection Between a Virtual Network Adapter and Physical Network Adapter When specifying a MAC address, specify a consecutive sequence of hexadecimal digits. This item can be set to any value that can be used as a MAC address. Specifies the value of the MAC address held by the Virtual Network Adapter. Although normally no problems will occur if this setting is left at 100 Mbps, if the physical connection used for VPN communication have a maximum rate of only 10 Mbps, this value may be set to 10 Mbps.
The actual communication rate is not influenced by the value set here. Windows recognizes that the maximum communication rate supported by the Virtual Network Adapter is the value set here. Specifies the datalink speed in Mbps that the Virtual Network Adapter reports to the operating system. Note that the VPN connection will be temporarily closed if these settings have been changed while the Virtual Network Adapter is being used for VPN communication. The following Virtual Network Adapter settings can be changed in the properties for a VPN client Virtual Network Adapter registered in the Windows Device Manager. Virtual Network Adapter Network Properties. For details on the settings, please ask the administrator for the VPN server you want to connect to. When a new Virtual Network Adapter was created, the user can set the protocol and clear any unneeded service bindings in the same manner as the user would for a physical network adapter. The TCP/IP protocol and other settings for the Virtual Network Adapter can be set in the same way a normal network adapter is set by right clicking the VPN client Virtual Network Adapter's icon in the Control Panel's folder and selecting. Virtual Network Adapter Display in Network Connections. The user can change this name at any time. Also, the name of the icon registered in the Control Panel's window will be "ABC - VPN client". If, for example, the name of the newly created Virtual Network Adapter was "ABC", that Virtual Network Adapter device name will be registered and displayed as "VPN Client Adapter - ABC" in the Device Manager. It will be displayed as a icon in in the Windows Control Panel. A newly created Virtual Network Adapter will be recognized as a Windows device.