From: "Hendrik Friedel" <hendrik@friedels.name>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
"WireGuard mailing list" <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:58:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <emf58fb568-663d-469b-aa45-48fbf11e46b4@envy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9p8WLAzd=W+Z6MKtke5PYb_T6iMbvBFirmCeUQzxycRwQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Jason,
thanks for your work on Wireguard.
I have just updated and activated the experimental driver. The fact that
I do not need to activate it in the registry was decisive for me ;-)
I cannot report any issue so far.
Best regards,
Hendrik
------ Originalnachricht ------
Von: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
An: "WireGuard mailing list" <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Gesendet: 13.08.2021 13:52:39
Betreff: Re: [ANNOUNCE] WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard
implementation for the Windows kernel
>Hi everyone,
>
>On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 7:28 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>> Nonetheless, experimental or not, we still need people to test this and help
>> shake out issues. To that end, WireGuardNT is now available in the ordinary
>> WireGuard for Windows client -- https://www.wireguard.com/install/ -- with the
>> 0.4.z series, in addition to having full support of the venerable wg(8)
>> utility, but currently (August 2021; if you're reading this in the future this
>> might not apply) it is behind a manually set registry knob. There will be
>> three phases of the 0.4.z series:
>>
>> Phase 1) WireGuardNT is hidden behind the "ExperimentalKernelDriver"
>> registry knob. If you don't manually tinker around to enable it,
>> the client will continue to use wireguard-go/Wintun like before.
>
>After the first few days, bug reports for WireGuardNT have died down
>considerably. It's hard to tell whether that's a sign that the
>software is stable or that nobody is using it. So, we're still in
>phase 1. However, with version 0.4.5 of the client, I've added a
>checkbox below the "activate" button in order to make the experimental
>testing more discoverable. I dislike such knobs, but I'd rather have
>more testing than less, before turning it on by default. Hopefully
>this will make it easier for alpha testers to give it a spin and
>report findings. If you have been testing the driver, and it's been
>working well for you, please write in to say so, simply as a signal
>that it is being tested. If things stay as quiet as they are now on
>the bug reporting front, we'll likely move into phase 2 -- enabling
>WireGuardNT by default, with a registry key to revert to the legacy
>implementation -- in 2 to 3 weeks.
>
>Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-13 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-02 17:27 Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-08-13 11:52 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-08-13 15:58 ` Hendrik Friedel [this message]
2021-08-13 16:09 ` Peter Whisker
2021-08-14 11:03 ` Phillip McMahon
2021-08-14 21:37 ` Morten Christensen
2021-08-16 8:15 ` nomad
2021-09-09 11:41 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-09-12 21:06 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-09-12 21:54 ` Jeffrey Walton
2021-09-18 0:27 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-10-17 5:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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