WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6

Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by MartijnBraam on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:30AM (#22728297)

actually wireguard doesn't look at text files at all, it only has a netlink interface so you can configure it using the `ip` command. The current tools read the text files and set up the network interface.

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by exabrial on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:44AM (#22728387)

Interesting... I'll have to take a look at what the utilities are actually done then and how they're loading the keys into the interface

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by djsumdog on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:45PM (#22729598)

If you look at their tutorial video, you can see what's going on. The tutorial has a lot of commands like

    ip link add wg0 type wrieguard
    ip addr add 10.1.20.1/24 dev wg0
    wg set wg0 listen-port 5100 private-key /etc/path/to/key
    ip link set wg0 up
    wg set wg0 peer........

If you look at the wg-quick script, it basically reads an /etc/wireguard/<adapter>.conf and runs the same commands based on your settings.

It's great when you're just trying to test things out. You can do a lot of stuff by hand, make sure it's working, try the conf file, enable the systemd or runit service, reboot and make sure it comes up.

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by inetknght on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:35PM (#22730141)

Can you link to the video you're mentioning?

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by djsumdog on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:03PM (#22730468)

The side-by-side video:

https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/

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