I've had some recent problems with wireguard disconnecting (or not
reconnecting) from a remote system behind NAT.  I discovered that
setting PersistentKeepalive to something other than zero (I set to 25)
helped.  I did it at both ends, but might only have been required for the
system behind the NAT.

David

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 5:32 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
wrote:

> reboot
>
> You should not do a "service network restart"
>
> Lonnie
>
>
> > On May 18, 2021, at 4:27 PM, Michael Knill <
> michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm same problem again with two of my sites.
> > Only one of the two Wireguard VPN's are down. I have tried the following:
> > arno-iptables-firewall restart
> > service network restart
> > pppoe-restart
> > ip link set dev wg0 down & ip link set dev wg0 up
> >
> > All to no avail. Any other ideas before I reboot?
> > PS there is no failover configured for this site so I don't think MTU is
> the issue.
> >
> > Regards
> > Michael Knill
> >
> > On 20/3/21, 2:09 pm, "Michael Knill" <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> >    Thanks. Guess I will need to test it out.
> >
> >    Regards
> >    Michael Knill
> >
> >    On 20/3/21, 2:03 pm, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >        While playing with the WG MTU, it seemed to work with only
> setting one end and the tunnel used the smallest, but I played it safe and
> set everything to 1340.
> >
> >        It would be good to know what the precise answer is.
> >
> >        Lonnie
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 19, 2021, at 9:57 PM, Michael Knill <
> michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks Lonnie.
> >>
> >> PS I was just thinking (dangerous I know). I would need to set it on
> both ends so do you think there would there be any issues with different
> MTU's at each end?
> >> Ultimately it would be the same eventually but there would be a
> migration period.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Michael Knill
> >>
> >> On 20/3/21, 1:41 pm, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>   I haven't seen any issues with a WG MTU of 1340, yet anyway.
> >>
> >>   Lonnie
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Mar 19, 2021, at 9:29 PM, Michael Knill <
> michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Lonnie
> >>>
> >>> Hmm that may have something to do with it. Might also be when it fails
> over to 4G.
> >>> As most of my VPN's carry voice only, I think a standard MTU of 1340
> for all my systems should be fine. What do you think?
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Michael Knill
> >>>
> >>> On 20/3/21, 10:40 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Hi Michael,
> >>>
> >>>  I have not experienced anything like that, WireGuard connectivity is
> rock solid for me.
> >>>
> >>>  I don't recall later WireGuard versions having any fixes for what you
> are describing.
> >>>
> >>>  Just guessing, the standard MTU for WG is 1420 (1500-80), if you have
> a PPPoE connection with a MTU of 1492 you might try setting the WG MTU to
> 1412 (1500-8-80) or lower to test.
> >>>
> >>>  I'm testing a 4G-LTE/5G fixed wireless internet service from
> T-Mobile, they use Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) for IPv4 which lowers the MTU
> to 1420 (just like WG) so WG needs a MTU setting of 1340 to work over the
> CGNAT or else it hangs.
> >>>
> >>>  Lonnie
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 19, 2021, at 3:42 PM, Michael Knill <
> michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Group
> >>>>
> >>>> Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this. I'm on 1.3.10 and all
> my systems connect via Wireguard VPN to both my softswitches.
> >>>> Its generally all pretty stable but occasionally one of the VPN’s
> will be disconnected and I have tried everything I can think of to bring it
> back up but only a reboot has managed to do so at this stage.
> >>>> Any ideas?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Michael Knill
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