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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: "Vojtěch Káně" <vojtech.kane@gmail.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior when a peer has the same key as the interface
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 22:54:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9q=XVvkj8dPGKdzEFSXg2thisDMkUWqXHGtAfmW2==ZRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57e7c370-026a-1456-496f-cf069d392772@gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 10:27 PM Vojtěch Káně <vojtech.kane@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is by design across all implementations, so that multiple peers can share the same stanzas after the [Interface] section.
> Does that mean it's unfixable in the meaning you cannot detect it and
> return appropriate error?
>
>
> While being clearly my mistake, it took me multiple hours to understand
> the problem instead of simply getting `cannot set peer foo as it already
> is a public key of interface bar`.
>

It sounds like we really need to document that in more obvious places,
like wg(8), as that kind of confusion indeed must have been really
frustrating.

Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-05 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03  7:24 Vojtěch Káně
2021-09-05 13:24 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-09-05 20:27   ` Vojtěch Káně
2021-09-05 20:54     ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]

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