From: ajs124 <wireguard@ajs124.de>
To: <mike@pmfarmwald.com>
Cc: <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to use wireguard as a non-encrypted VPN?
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:02:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200414170241.2d9d5d6d@desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a3401d61035$4d6b5840$e84208c0$@pmfarmwald.com>
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 12:13:36 -0700
<mike@pmfarmwald.com> wrote:
> I have some older routers that run OpenWRT just fine, but are a bit slow at
> Wireguard (3-5 MBytes/s for SMB transfers) and which are too slow for
> playing HD movies.
> For these routers/uses I don't care about security, I just want a VPN to
> tunnel (thru Comcast, and other ISPs that block lots of ports.)
> If there was a way to use Wiireguard with encryption disabled, I'm pretty
> sure my performance would be closer to 20-50 MB/s which would be more than
> adequate.
> Thanks.
> Mike Farmwald
>
If you're actually just looking for an unencrypted tunnel, there is some standardized stuff like GRE[1] or IP in IP[2] out there.
The Linux Kernel supports both of those natively and it looks to me like OpenWRT should be able to configure at least one of them through its interface.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Routing_Encapsulation
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_in_IP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-14 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-11 19:13 mike
2020-04-14 8:53 ` Fredrik Strömberg
2020-04-14 9:16 ` Mike O'Connor
2020-04-14 15:02 ` ajs124 [this message]
2020-04-14 15:16 ` Roman Mamedov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20200414170241.2d9d5d6d@desk \
--to=wireguard@ajs124.de \
--cc=mike@pmfarmwald.com \
--cc=wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).