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From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>
To: Svenne Krap <svenne@kracon.dk>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: Source IP for multihomed peer
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:39:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnmfj9kq.fsf@proton.d.airelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0e1773d-80d5-7676-7943-2eff8d57beaa@kracon.dk> (Svenne Krap's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:30:27 +0200")

Hi Svenne,

We have met exactly the same problem.

Svenne Krap <svenne@kracon.dk> writes:

> [...]
>
> My question is twofold:
>
> 1) Does the above seem like a likely chain of events?
>
> 2) Is there any way to force the source ip of the connection from boxA
> to always use address boxA1 ?
>
> From the documentation Listenport only seems like the portnumber and
> there seems to be no way to set the source ip.

It has been discussed on the list several times.  But Jason seems not
convinced of the necessity of address binding.

  https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2017-May/001280.html
  https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-March/003938.html
  https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-June/003013.html
  https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2017-November/002017.html

Rulin and I tried to implement an address binding feature at,

  https://github.com/FireflyTang/linux-wireguard-bind

It was verified to work with Linux-5.7.

Yours,
Benda

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-15  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-14  8:30 Svenne Krap
2021-10-15  2:39 ` Benda Xu [this message]
2021-10-15  7:57   ` Chriztoffer Hansen
2021-10-15  8:25     ` Benda Xu
2021-10-15  8:54   ` Svenne Krap
2021-10-15 10:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-10-15 11:14   ` Chriztoffer Hansen

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