From: "Hendrik Friedel" <hendrik@friedels.name>
To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Better Output
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:22:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em19dde1c0-bcda-4ad2-b3ce-d72fb64993e4@envy> (raw)
Hello,
when using wireguard - both Android and Windows - clients, I in the past
often thought that the connection is fine but in fact, I had a wrong
Key.
The Windows-Client showed a green Checkmark under Status. The Android
Client showed the "key" symbol and it showed also the "switch" on the
right hand side (=activ) and blue.
Obviously, the connection was not working, but I would have hoped that
Wireguard would have told me, that the connection was not ok.
In fact, I was only able to determine whether the connection was working
by trying to access some Service (e.g. google) or by observing the
"Received/bytes" counter which remained at 0.
I would suggest an improvement here:
1) If no Server responds on the particular domain/IP, wireguard should
show a message
Could not connect to [my.domain.com] under IP
[2a00:1234:1234:c700:ba27:ebff:fe3e:2342] or 1.4.4.1.
2) If a wireguard server responds, but the key is not valid it should
show a message
Connection failed. Host responded, but key was invalid
3) If the connection fails, the Windows Client should show a RED symbol
under status.
4) If the connection fails, the "key" symbol should not be shown under
Android and the toggle-switch should move from right&blue (active) back
to left&grey.
Would that be possible?
Greetings,
Hendrik
next reply other threads:[~2022-04-17 8:24 UTC|newest]
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2022-04-17 8:22 Hendrik Friedel [this message]
2022-04-17 19:05 ` Aaron Jones
2022-04-18 8:40 ` Re[2]: " Hendrik Friedel
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