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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 nullify88 »

the8472 wrote: post #6
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.

Indeed. Official packages exist for Centos / RHEL 7 & 8 for those that need it.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by zx2c4 »

BeefySwain wrote: post #9

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

Actually, WireGuard has first class support now on a large number of distros, without the need for any additional compilation: Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Mandriva, Alpine, Nix, Void, OpenWRT, and others. Check out www.wireguard.com/install/ for the whole list.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by zx2c4 »

duhast wrote: post #8
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.

And it was backported to 18.04 and 16.04. And the Debian backports kernel. And SUSE enterprise. And... So indeed GP's comment isn't totally accurate.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by fomine3 »

chromedev wrote: post #16
gsich wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Redhat did that before they were bought by IBM.

I was never a fan of RHEL even before they got purchased. They've done some great things lately with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, etc but never really been an innovator when it comes to desktop Linux. I see Arch and Alpine being the real innovators, and projects like wlroots.

Just "not for me". It's for enterprise as the name says.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by zx2c4 »

holmb wrote: post #29
pa7ch wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not ubiquiti's doing but this repo has pre-built kernel modules of wireguard and vyatta integration for I think most of the edgerouter series: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-vyatta-ubnt I haven't updated/tested in awhile but last I remember I was seeing 800+ mbit/s on my dinky mips ER-X. Pretty amazing and easy to use.

We built an Ansible role to install and configure Wireguard on EdgeOS. It works well on EdgeRouter Infinity ER-8-XG and EdgeRouter X. https://github.com/dynamist/ansible-role-wireguard-vyatta

This repo appears to use Lochnair's old builds, which are unmaintained/deprecated and replaced with the official ones linked to by GP.

Re: WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

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Post by merlinscholz »

pa7ch wrote: post #22
ghostpepper wrote: post #20

The ball's in your court, Ubiquiti

Not ubiquiti's doing but this repo has pre-built kernel modules of wireguard and vyatta integration for I think most of the edgerouter series: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-vyatta-ubnt I haven't updated/tested in awhile but last I remember I was seeing 800+ mbit/s on my dinky mips ER-X. Pretty amazing and easy to use.

Can confirm, way back I wrote a small guide on how to install and configure Wireguard on the ER-X (and other EdgeRouters), and to date this article is still by far the most read one: https://merlinscholz.name/post/wireguard-on-erx/
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