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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:22:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: wireguardnl: Go package for interacting with WireGuard via
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:59 PM Matt Layher <mdlayher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> An update for those on the list, I've implemented Jason's requested name
> change and the API is now set up to allow seamless kernel and userspace
> implementations via https://godoc.org/github.com/mdlayher/wireguardctrl.
>
> I will explicitly encourage callers to use this interface rather than
> the "wireguardnl" package, unless we do end up with useful
> netlink-specific functionality like the situation I described previously.
>
> I'll keep working on this for now and report back when I have a working
> userspace implementation.  Should be quite straightforward compared to
> dealing with netlink! :)

Wonderful! Thanks Matt!