Re: wireguard-go on windows

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

+ Matt Layher

Hi Davanath,

> We are trying to use wgctrl way of configuring the wireguard devices
> and facing issues while creating/configuring the wireguard device on
> windows.
>
> 1) First problem was while creating the wintun device using wintun.dll
> and using wgctrl for configuring it.  It hangs in
> wgclient.ConfigureDevice api()

wgctrl works with wireguard. wireguard uses wintun, but wireguard is not wintun.

>
> 2) So tried to first create the device through wireguard.exe. And then
> used wgctrl way to configure it, but wgClient.Devices() is not able to
> get the devices on our test windows boxes (even though it works on my
> development machine)

This sounds like a potential bug in wgctrl.

Matt -- I wonder if there's a bug in the parser, recently unearthed by
a change in wireguard-go. Specifically, uapi stipulates that requests
and responses end with \n\n. Is it possible that you're relying on the
socket to EOF, instead of looking for the \n\n? Recent wireguard-go
keeps the socket open, in case you want to send one request after
another.

Jason