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Re:NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN by ignoramous on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @06:20AM (#37144989)
> - speed: netmaker is faster because it uses kernel wg - this is not going to hold true for all system configurations, certainly doesn't for macos

As of now, tailscale claims they're faster than (linux) kernel wg: https://tailscale.com/blog/throughput-improvements/

  Surprisingly, we improved the performance of wireguard-go (running in userspace) enough to make it faster than WireGuard (running in the kernel) in the best conditions. But, this point of comparison likely won’t be long-lived: we expect the kernel can do similar things.
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Re:NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN by SOLAR_FIELDS on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:52AM (#37147009)
Huh, would be interesting to see some non-tailscale benchmarks of this. Assuming the kernel impl is actually optimized it should be theoretically impossible to exceed the performance with userland wg?
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Re:NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN by SparkyMcUnicorn on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:41PM (#37156129)
I ran the same benchmarks they listed here[0], and did some practical tests. As of a week after the article being written, Tailscale was faster than kernel wireguard.

[0] https://tailscale.com/blog/more-throughput/

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