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From: "Dan Lüdtke" <mail@danrl.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Handling multiple endpoints for a single peer
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:01:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B39E551B-33E0-45BA-91C1-68E3D438B816@danrl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9pZLDieAabMhjDQHxpj_TDd5OLjNEUpQrraFvXA0g7gmA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,


> On 8 Jan 2017, at 23:49, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>=20
> (send an encrypted out of band non-IP packet
> directly to a peer, for things like autoconfig) could play a nice role
> in this.


This is highly interesting! I should undust my gcc probably.


> One thing that comes to mind is how to detect when the local LAN peer
> comes back online there. Should wireguard just be trying to initiate a
> new handshake _always_, and eventually it will succeed and promote the
> cryptokey routing table entry to "active"?

Something like RetryTimeout=3DX comes to mind. And immediately raises =
the question how it is different from PersistentKeepalive? The latter =
one is misused to achieve exactly this sometimes.

The concrete problem Samuel described is one that could be solved by =
scoped addressing. This may be too theoretical for the actual scenario =
and circumstances.


Cheers,

Dan=

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-16 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-08 22:41 Baptiste Jonglez
2017-01-08 22:49 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-01-09  2:37   ` Samuel Holland
2017-01-09  9:26     ` Baptiste Jonglez
2017-01-15 10:12     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-01-09  7:00   ` Dave Taht
2017-01-09  9:47   ` Baptiste Jonglez
2017-01-15 10:06     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-01-16 15:01   ` Dan Lüdtke [this message]
2017-01-09  8:46 ` Ameretat Reith
2017-01-15 10:17   ` Jason A. Donenfeld

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