WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by pozibrothers » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 12:19 AM UTC

WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2
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Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by dgemm » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:33 AM UTC

That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet.

I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by zamadatix » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:00 AM UTC

dgemm wrote: post #2

That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.

Note this in the development tree not the stable release tree. No 7.x has not been released as stable yet and probably won't be for a while. The stable 6.x is still based on an ancient 3.X kernel.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by a012 » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:05 AM UTC

dgemm wrote: post #2

That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.

Mikrotik users were requesting support of Wireguard since 2018 but Mikrotik didn't do it because Wireguard wasn't v1.0. At that time, wireguard.com listed dozen of OS/distributions you can use with wg.

Mikrotik thread: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=134093

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by jlgaddis » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:06 AM UTC

Has MikroTik ever made any source code available?

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by the8472 » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:07 AM UTC

dgemm wrote: post #2

That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.

Fedora 32 has wireguard. So does any rolling release distro. And for distros with older kernels there are loadable modules that retrofit it. Openwrt has had it for quite some time now.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by m463 » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:26 AM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #5

Has MikroTik ever made any source code available?

who knows, but I run openwrt on my mikrotik rb2011* switches.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by duhast » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:28 AM UTC

dgemm wrote: post #2

That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ships with Wireguard.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by BeefySwain » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:32 AM UTC

We have been waiting for years for UDP OpenVPN, but we get WireGaurd before most major distros. That's something

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by jlgaddis » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:38 AM UTC

dgemm wrote: post #2

That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.

> We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet.

MikroTik users don't have it in stable RouterOS releases either. This is a development ("beta") release for testing purposes.