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Atm I have that funny bug where my laptop drops connection after 3 seconds but my desktop does fine. With the same configuration! Thank OVPN for that annoyance!
Is there any paid VPN provider that supports it?
I use dnsmasq to resolve DNS queries on the server side. Dnsmasq's configuration file includes entries to block connections to ad networks, based on Steven Black's host file [0]. It's a great to achieve ad blocking on Android, since Google has banned ad blockers from the Play Store.
Jason Donenfeld, Wireguard's author, has a Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/zx2c4
I've been using Wireguard on both my laptop and my Android phone for about two months. I've been using the wg-quick systemd units, and everything has worked amazingly well. The only downside I've notice is slightly increased battery consumption on my phone, but that's to be expected (it uses approximately 5% of the battery per day). I use dnsmasq to resolve DNS queries on the server side. Dnsmasq's configuration file…
So I can use this as a secure proxy to get around region restrictions? In the same way I do ssh -D? And then configure the proxy on my browser?
The main gain is in efficiency. It is much less resource intensive and thus sometimes faster.
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That's the thing with a vpn - it is just a single component of a fully setup network. The vpn documentation generally just covers how to setup the vpn connection. The routing and rest of the network setup, as per the questions you are asking, generally falls out of its domain and into general networks.. which is quite a huge area!
this is a very good point. Also, from a network design perspective, the difference between a tunnel, GRE interface or VPN is nonexistant. They all accomplish the same objective with different technical methods.
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I've been using wg for over a year now and never had any difficulty finding documentation. `man wg` works just fine as does `man wg-quick` https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/ also shows you how to make a config file
The problem is that a regular user [some of them] can follow documentation, set up a server and a client, use wg to connect them and may be even ping the connection. That's it, congratulations. How is this connection can be used? Which IPs should be used to establish a useful connection? How can a user see their LAN resources through it? How can a user route his web browsing through this connection (here we at least…
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The problem is that a regular user [some of them] can follow documentation, set up a server and a client, use wg to connect them and may be even ping the connection. That's it, congratulations. How is this connection can be used? Which IPs should be used to establish a useful connection? How can a user see their LAN resources through it? How can a user route his web browsing through this connection (here we at least…
After that point it works exactly like any other network connection. I'm not sure what you feel needs to be documented here.
Of course it's up to WG to decide if they want to deal with this kind of community education/outreach.