9.1 Installation Precautions
This section describes the precautions to take
before installing PacketiX VPN Bridge 2.0.
9.1.1 Checking the Operating Environment
Before installing PacketiX VPN Bridge to a computer, check
that the computer hardware and operating system support PacketiX
VPN Bridge .
PacketiX VPN Bridge supports Windows, Linux, FreeBSD,
Solaris, and Mac OS X; however, this product formally supports
only operating systems with Windows 2000 or later and certain
Linux distributions. PacketiX VPN Bridge can be installed on
other operating systems, but SoftEther Corporation is not
responsible for its operations. For information about the
operating environment of PacketiX VPN Bridge , please refer to
「12.1 PacketiX VPN Server 2.0 Specs」.
Before installing PacketiX VPN Bridge , be sure to back up
data stored in the installation directory of the computer
(including the system registry in Windows).
9.1.2 Hard Disk Space
As described in 「3.10 Logging Service」, PacketiX VPN Bridge writes large
operation log files to the hard disk during operation. In
addition, when the hard disk space reaches a certain size, VPN
Bridge deletes the oldest log files written to the hard disk
during VPN Bridge operation.
Although the data size of logs written by VPN Bridge varies
greatly depending on the operation status of VPN Bridge , the
number of users connected on a daily basis, and the selection of
saved packet log items configured by the virtual hub
administrator, as a guideline, it is a good idea to have between
30 and 100 GB of available disk space when using VPN Bridge for
a general remote-access VPN or for a VPN connection between
bases.
9.1.3 CPU Processing Speed
The processing speed of VPN Bridge depends on the CPU speed.
Therefore, check that the CPU speed of the hardware you want to
use as the VPN Bridge computer has sufficient speed. If the CPU
speed is too slow, we recommend upgrading the system.
As a guideline for the CPU speed, we recommend providing a
CPU with a speed of 2.0 GHz or faster when connecting to a
network using a physical line with a communication speed of 100
Mbps. If the CPU speed is too slow, the communication delay time
can increase and throughput can decrease.
9.1.4 Conflicting Software
It is essential that you make sure that the operation speed
of VPN Bridge is not adversely affected and server operations
are not disrupted by software conflicts that can occur when VPN
Bridge is installed on a computer with a personal firewall or
antivirus software from a different manufacturer. If there are
signs that the VPN functions are not operating properly due to a
conflict with this type of software, we recommend temporarily
disabling that software and try operating VPN Bridge again.
Please note that VPN Bridge conflicts with VPN Server.
Generally, VPN Server does not need to be installed on the same
computer on which VPN Bridge is installed.
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