Wireguard is one of the hottest new VPN’s available today, and is rapidly being adopted as the possible successor to OpenVPN. The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter is an awesome, high-performing wired router, which also comes with a firewall and vpn functionality. This article will walk you through how to quickly setup wireguard on an EdgeRouter 4.
Since it has been a couple weeks since first starting to work with wireguard on OpenBSD, I figured it was about time to figure out how to get my OpenBSD desktop to act as a wireguard client. Who knows, perhaps this will one day allow me to drop my PIA VPN and shift exclusively to running my own personal VPN’s.
Well, I am no networking pro. I know there is a wg-quick script out there, but the couple of times that I tried it out on OpenBSD, it failed. I figured that there shouldn’t be that much to a wireguard tunnel, all I have to do is figure out how to establish the tunnel and force data out the tun device.
Welcome to part two of using WireGuard on OpenBSD! The first post was about the initial release of the project; This followup is about one new role added to the playbook. Now in the initial release, I wasn’t attempting to compile wg or wireguard within the playbook itself. I had just planned to update the binaries every day/week with a cronjob run on one of my servers. However, thank you reddit user techsnapp for pointing out that there is actually a script that wireguard provides to assist in compiling the software on OpenBSD. This post will go over the new role written to reliably download and compile wg, wg-quick, and wireguard-go.
I recently published my OpenBSD-Wireguard project on GitHub. There is now a published wireguard role, found in my OpenBSD Dev repo, found here. Compared to some of my other playbooks, this one is fairly simple. All it does is configure a fresh OpenBSD server to act as a wireguard server, to which multiple connections over one tun3 device are allowed.
I have tested multiple times deploying the playbook in minutes to a Vultr VM. By the way, I would eagerly recommend vultr to anyone looking for a fast yet cheap VPS solution. I have had zero problems while using their services the past few months.
Earlier this week, I was casually discussing various VPN’s with my colleagues. I’ve tried my hand at OpenVPN a couple times in my life, but was turned off by the complicated setup, poor iOS compatibility (at the time), and slow reconnection speeds. The conversation quickly came to revolve around a relative newcomer to the VPN world: wireguard. With the promise of ease of use, minimalistic code base, proven security, wireguard threatens to take the VPN world by storm.