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From: Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha@gmail.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Using Wireguard for Geo redundancy
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 17:53:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMucfLxWUdzx5LfiYRhE+yypY8zC6ch868RO_NV231GCMvZo6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1604430353.311423080@webmail.emailsrvr.com>

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 8:07 PM dxiri@xirihosting.com
<dxiri@xirihosting.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am looking for information on how to leverage Wireguard in a geo-redundancy scenario.
>
> We have a couple management boxes colocated next to each other that provide HA via a VIP that "jumps" between each of those management boxes depending on availability.

How is HA implemented in this case? If it is based on ARP, then I am
afraid that WireGuard cannot do the same thing.

>
> Now lets say we want to place management box on datacenter 1 (DC1) and management box 2 on datacenter2 (DC2).
>
> Assuming the VIP cannot move between DCs, how could you leverage Wireguard to provide the same level of redundancy but with geographically dispersed hosts?
>
> Any information on this topic or documentation that points me in the right direction would be really appreciated!

Here are some of the cases where WG can be useful:
https://gitlab.com/docker-scripts/wireguard/-/blob/master/docs/wg-usecases.md

None of them solves your problem, but maybe this can help you to
understand better how WG works.

>
> Thanks!
> Diego
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-09 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-03 19:05 dxiri
2020-11-04 11:11 ` Laura Smith
2020-11-04 16:53 ` Dashamir Hoxha [this message]
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2020-11-04 17:36     ` dxiri

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