Questions tagged [wireguard]
Questions specific to Wireguard VPN in general, such as setup or functioning question. Use this tag if your question involves directly Wireguard VPN technology; do not use it if you just happen to be using Wireguard and your question is about a specific network configuration.
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cloud-init tailscale setup fails due to missing /dev/net/tun
I want to provision a VM in proxmox with cloud-init, such that tailscale will be set up and running on first boot.
The image I use is alpine 3.22.1 (nocloud_alpine-3.22.1-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0....
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SSH connection over from LAN to WireGuard VPN Peer drops after ~1 minute despite keepalive settings
I have a device connected to my home network that wants to SSH via WireGuard VPN Peer. The VPN subnet is 10.0.0.x/24.
The issue is:
I can successfully connect to the device via SSH.
The SSH session ...
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Anonymous only FTP over wireguard with pure-ftpd (or other)
I want an FTP server on a wireguard network that is accessible to everyone anonymously and does not require further encryption (eg. TLS or SSH). Restricting the access is very simple using firewall ...
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Nested VPN connection via Wireguard
I designed the following topology:
Client A -> Server B -> Server C
Server C: wireguard server that NATs packets from its clients (in this case just B) before sending them to the Internet. Its ...
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How do I start a process which by-passes a wireguard VPN?
I have a very basic wireguard connection that routes all traffic through a VPN.
[Interface]
PrivateKey = <PRIV-KEY>
Address = <IPV4,IPV6>
DNS = <DNS>
[Peer]
PublicKey = <PUB-KEY&...
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PS4 Not Fully Connecting Through WireGuard VPN via macOS Internet Sharing
I’m trying to route all my PS4 traffic through a VPS-hosted VPN (using WireGuard), with the MacBook acting as the gateway.
✅ The Setup So Far
VPS (Ubuntu): Set up successfully using Algo VPN. ...
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How to let Networkmanager disregard wireguard connections?
I recently upgraded from linux mint 21.0 to 21.3. After upgrading Networkmanager has seem to imported my existing wireguard connections (/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf) which results in it being displayed in ...
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Routing through a non-adjacent host in a virtual network
I have a WireGuard virtual network. Three hosts on the network: A, B and R.
Only the host R has a static public IP, so both hosts A and B connect to the host R to connect to the virtual network.
Hosts ...
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Wireguard: iPhone has no internet when outside of "home" wifi
I'd like to move away from tailscale (which works fine but drains my iPhone battery) and use a regular Wireguard tunnel to benefit from my home Pihole when "on the go".
Raspberry Pi running ...
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WireGuard VPN on Raspberry Pi 4 connects but iPhone has no internet access
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WireGuard VPN on Raspberry Pi 4 connects from client (iPhone), shows handshake and Rx/Tx, but VPN clients have no internet access.
✅ Setup
Network & Hardware
Virgin Media Hub 3 in ...
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How to simplify multi-VPN management (WireGuard/OpenVPN) and secure password handling?
I frequently switch between different VPN configurations on Linux:
WireGuard (wg-quick up/down)
A corporate OpenVPN profile (sudo openvpn corp.ovpn, which prompts for a private key password)
Right ...
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GL.iNet Router Connects to WireGuard VPN but Has No Internet Access (Debian Server with Pi-hole DNS)
I’ve set up a WireGuard VPN server on a rented virtual server running Debian. The configuration is as follows:
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Server OS: Debian (12)
VPN: WireGuard
DNS: Pi-hole running on the same ...
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bash nmcli cmd reporting Error: invalid extra argument '--autoconnect=false'
I want to import my vpn.conf file using nmcli and set autoconnect to 0, otherwise it defaults to 1
Apparently the correct way is by specifying --autoconnect=false flag, but this results in error.
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Wireguard cause strange routing with multiple wg networks
I'm trying to design a network to allow access to several IOT devices.
Network layout is like this (stripped down version to make it easier to understand)
The incoming fw rule on the IOT devices is ...
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how to have vpn traffic routed to pihole
i have a pihole server running in docker compose on my Debian Linux server. i also host a wireguard vpn (also in docker compose) running on the same server. by using the tcpdump command i have ...
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