These logs are kept for two or more weeks, after which they may be compressed or deleted to save disk space.įinally, “when a VPN Gate user communicates with an HTTP server via a VPN Gate Public Relay Server, a part of the VPN Session ID will be appended on the User-Agent value on the HTTP request header. Here the owner of the server can see what kind of communication was established via their VPN server involving a specific VPN user. In case any abuse occurs by “users who exploit VPN Gate to hide their IP address for wrongdoing”, the provider will trace the source IP address by analyzing the VPN connection log and disclose it “to a policeman, a prosecutor, a lawyer or a court who is authorized by applicable laws.”įurthermore, each volunteering VPN relay server keeps packet logs that contain TCP/IP packet-headers of all communication initiated by every VPN user. This log entry is stored on the server’s log file and transmitter to the provider’s logging server. The platform also records an access log entry whenever an anonymous user connects to and disconnects from one of the servers. According to the provider, “a VPN connection log entry contains: Specifically, the website states that it always keeps connection logs of the VPN relay servers for three or more months. In terms of logging, quite a lot of it occurs but the provider is fully transparent about it. Mac, iOS, and Android platforms support OpenVPN and L2TP/IPsec.Īlthough the platform allows it, you should be careful about torrenting as it may not be legal in places where some of the servers and their owners are located so you could get them and yourself in trouble as they could direct the authorities to you. VPN Gate supports several transport protocols and their combinations for Windows: SSL VPN (recommended), L2TP/IPSec, OpenVPN (TCP, UDP), and Microsoft SSTP. Every VPN server has a dynamic IP address. All the servers are listed on the website, neatly organized in a table along with their uptime, cumulative users, speed, protocols, supported clients, and more. The provider offers access to thousands (12,000+ at the moment, but the number varies constantly) of public VPN relay servers run by volunteers around the world. VPN Gate was launched on March 8, 2013, as the child project of SoftEther VPN Project (opens in new tab) at the University of Tsukuba Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
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