Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard

Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard by tptacek on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:21PM (#21422112)

It doesn't just claim to be faster; it's clearly, materially, obviously faster, at least in straightforward configurations (which is to say that someone could come up with some weird OpenVPN configuration that makes up the [large] gap, but I haven't see that yet).

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Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard by 1996 on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:27PM (#21422768)

IF you only use AH with strongswan then it is faster than either wireguard or openvpn

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Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard by psanford on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:43PM (#21423506)

If you are just using AH you aren't encrypting your traffic so it isn't really comparable to wireguard or openvpn.

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Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard by 1996 on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:57PM (#21423622)

Or maybe you encrypt at another layer and just want strongswan for the interconnection without too much overhead.

Or maybe you do not care about the encryption, but care about the virtual and private part of VPN

There are many usecase. There is no one size fit all.

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Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard by mikl on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:11PM (#21423201)

The question was if there was a reason to switch away from OpenVPN ;)

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