hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
Set up your own IPsec VPN server in just a few minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2. Supports Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, Alpine Linux and Raspberry Pi OS. Includes client config and management scripts.
28.7k stars · 6.5k forks · Shell
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 98% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 8
- Human commits, 90 days
- 41
- Human commits, 365 days
- 112
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 14 hours
Responsiveness: of 7 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 18 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 112 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 24
Top committers
- hwdsl2: 98% of commits
- scottpedia: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Apr 13, 2018 to Apr 20, 2018: about 158 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 28, 2022 to Mar 1, 2022: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 99 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 13, 2022 to Mar 16, 2022: about 220 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 31, 2025 to Aug 1, 2025: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- No license found
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.8 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution