• Lorenz (xha) [2024-03-20 09:29]:
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> > I've seen some issues too, but has not identified a reproducible pattern.
> > What I've seen, however, is that WG packets start flowing when the other end
> > of the connection pings back, so in my setup with a central VPN server I
> > make it ping all the peers' WG IP adress periodically:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > ifconfig wg1 | \
> > grep wgaip | \
> > awk '{print $2} ' | \
> > grep /32$ | \
> > sed 's/\/32//' | \
> > sort | while read x; do
> > ping -w 1 -c 1 $x 2>&1
> > done
> >
> > and then each peer also pings the server's WG IP periodically.
>
> i think that this is a different issue than the one paul has. are
> you aware that the "wgpka" option exists? (documented in ifconfig(8)).
> that might solve your problem.
could be a different issue FWIW.
yes, I am aware of and use wgpka, and yet the workaround still was
necessary.
