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Wg-access-server: WireGuard VPN server and web UI for device management

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What is the recommend wireguard mesh solution where peers can easily join and leave and shortest connection paths are automatically determined?

I want to setup a way to access my mobile home office subnet (behind cellular which doesn't allow incoming) and two other subnets sites and some mobile devices which come and go.

I don’t think wireguard will do that shortest path routing for you. Look into babel routing protocol and friends.

WireGuard on its own doesn't do that. WireGuard only sets up tunnels between peers. If you want something like you describe, you need another product that integrates WireGuard.

It's a bit boring but in a situation like yours the most straightforward way would be to set up WireGuard gateways at each of your sites and have them talk to each other and the mobile devices.

Tailscale works perfectly for this.

There's a third party open source server, too: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

(I just use the free hosted backend, obviously you trust them to do the key exchange)

Have you taken a look at Nebula [0]? Might fit your needs. It also uses the Noise Protocol Framework but adds the bells and whistles on top needed to synthesize an overlay network like you want. MIT licensed too fwiw, full self hosting. Worth a look at any rate, WireGuard is much lower level though I'm sure it could be built upon for the same purpose.

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0: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

https://zerotier.com/

The managed backend/NAT broker is free up to 50 machines, or you can run the open source server yourself.

i have been running zerotier for over 2 years now. brilliant. works without problems

Check out Netmaker if you're looking for something WireGuard based. We had a post about it a couple weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29809830

Also check out wg-easy: https://github.com/weejewel/wg-easy.

Much more beautiful imo.

But does it support multi tenant?

Installed on my home server few days ago. Very good and easy to manage

> Gravatar support.

What ? Yeah, no.

edit: or at least it should be opt-in for client

There's not much to it:

    if (client.name.includes('@') && client.name.includes('.')) {
          client.avatar = `https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/${md5(client.name)}?d=blank`;

I think people might not like this since it causes your clients to "phone home" to Gravatar unnecessarily/expectedly. It's a little out of place for what is essentially a network security application.

This would be great if it automatically generated `<device>.<user>.search.domain.vpn` DNS names for all of the devices.

Something like this would be amazing.

You can create a new issue with the feature request. Alternatively PRs are always welcome :P

This is a thing in Netmaker, another WireGuard server that is being built by a YC startup: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker

Tailscale does a version of this.

Well this is not the kind of thing I want to see in a tool I'm using to secure my networks:

> This is a fork of the original work of place1. Since the upstream is currently poorly maintained, we try to add new features and keep the project up to date and in a working state.

So ask the developer how you can pay them to get the support you want.

I think it's ok that there are things I don't want. There's no reason for me to offer money for it to be something different than the author intends.

Looks very neat. What's userland wireguard performance like? I can't seem to find much talking about this, just that it's "slower". My guess is that it's probably not an issue for a 5-10Mbit-upstream home connection?

Shout-out to PiVPN. It doesn't have a web ui but it's incredibly quick to setup and any commands are extremely basic. Took me less than 5m to setup and haven't had to touch it in almost a year.

Also see: https://github.com/freifunkMUC/wg-access-server/blob/master/...

I’d love to know how to deploy this with WireHole

I decided to just use adguard dns for my wireguard and it's Good Enough for my needs.

I find tailscale simple and setup exit node easy

Note: This is not about WireGuard itself, but about wg-access-server, which “is a single binary file that contains a WireGuard VPN server and a web user interface for device management.”

WireGuard itself has supported IPv6 since the start

Ok, title changed to that from "WireGuard Access server now supports IPv6". Thanks!

Also of note is that this is a fork of wg-access-server from the looks of it.

Yes, it's a fork as the original project is dead for a year already.

We used the Upstream project for a while, but we were missing some features like IPv6, so we started this fork and added them ourselves, hoping it would be useful for a few others as well.

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