WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN

Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN by wargame on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @12:00PM (#11994813)

Is it possible to use TCP-only?

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Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN by zx2c4 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @12:08PM (#11994893)

WireGuard is UDP only. For TCP or SSL tunneling, look at a million other things that already do this.

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Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN by cakoose on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:03PM (#11996534)

(I don't know much about networking.)

What are the advantages of doing UDP instead of IP?

It seems like, all else being equal, doing IP has the advantage of working with UDP and TCP out of the box.

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Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN by beagle3 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:21PM (#11997203)

It transfers general IP packets, but encapsulates them inside UDP packets.

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Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN by janvidar on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:05AM (#12000354)

UDP (and TCP) are built on top of IP. You can add other things on top of IP also, but they will be blocked by your average firewall.

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