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Do you mind sharing which “VPN” alternative this is? Thanks!

While I have no idea given the... oddity... of this subthread, I might posit `tinc` is being referred to here: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/faq/

ETA: this is based on the open source code which may be modified, userland daemon status, /dev/tap usage... Portability... etc.

In any case - tinc is excellent

FWIW, that is not what I use.

I should have not mentioned anything about other software. It is irrelevant to the question.

The question was/is: How portable is WireGuard?

Or, you could just say what you are using. Is there a reason you don't?

https://www.wireguard.com/xplatform/

There exist closed source third party clients for Windows/OS X, and wireguard itself has currently two (unreleased) reference libraries in Go and Rust to support future cross-platform clients.

So the answer to "how portable" is probably "portable" :-) (I don't know if there are any plans for _kernel_ mode implementations for anything but Linux, but cross-platform user mode clients are part of the project's goals)

Thank you. It sounds like portability may come via a userspace program. I look forward to it.

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