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From: ST <smntov@gmail.com>
To: Luis Ressel <aranea@aixah.de>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: add/remove a peer
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:48:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522093702.2044.61.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180326204612.6679a073@vega.skynet.aixah.de>

On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 20:46 +0200, Luis Ressel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Low-level tools such as wg aren't the right place for the "automagic"
> features you're suggesting. wg should have simple, bugproof code and
> behave reliably and predictably so that it can serve as a solid
> foundation for all sorts of high-level scripts.
> 
> Of course, this doesn't mean your suggested features would be useless
> -- they just don't belong into the same binary as the low-level stuff.
> Build a script to handle the boring IP assignments for you, and if you
> believe it might be useful to others, by all means publish it!

Agreed. I remember that I read in the docs that some of the WG's tools
are of higher level. So I thought that automatic IP assignment could
belong to them. Probably it was wg-quick, but `wg set ...` is seemingly
a low-level stuff. Now I see. Thank you!

      reply	other threads:[~2018-03-26 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-24 19:32 ST
2018-03-25 16:43 ` Wang Jian
2018-03-25 17:57   ` ST
2018-03-25 18:10   ` ST
2018-03-25 19:17     ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-03-25 19:42       ` Roman Mamedov
2018-03-26 15:13       ` ST
2018-03-26 18:46 ` Luis Ressel
2018-03-26 19:48   ` ST [this message]

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