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From: Damian Kaczkowski <damian.kaczkowski+wireguard.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] add support for peer names using a file in userspace
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:36:34 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGzienE4uVUo9BEEpQKmoD2vgqtzQQDBOo=h_vMJejxQF5kNzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9rV3simg0dTD7ja-RGWGTSR0dSMgJ20ft1FXPeZyFWamw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 8 December 2017 at 19:45, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:

> Absolutely not. If something like this lands, it will be called
> "Description=" or the like, as another attribute of a peer. There's no
> reason to make the section parser more complicated, when this is
> essentially just another key value.


+1.
Description, Comment, or maybe Name would be handy.
I got > 200 peers. I am getting hard times checking for peer status.
It would be nice to be able to do something like this:

wg | grep -A6 -B6 my_Description_or_Comment

Or maybe even simpler:

wg show peer by_Name

To show current status of selected peer.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-01 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-07 15:31 [patch] wg: " Lonnie Abelbeck
2017-12-08  4:23 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-12-08  4:26   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-12-08 13:42   ` [patch] " Lonnie Abelbeck
2017-12-08 18:45     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-12-08 19:00       ` Lonnie Abelbeck
2017-12-08 20:39         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-12-09  1:09           ` Eric Light
2017-12-09 11:32             ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-03-01 15:36       ` Damian Kaczkowski [this message]

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