Re: Getting IPv6 route advertisements to work over WG

2018-08-27 Thread StarBrilliant
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:46 AM Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: > > I laughed in my head. :) > > For what my two cents are worth, L2 WireGuard would have its (limited) use > cases, but nothing beats having a simple and effective mono-purpose protocol > like we do now. Everything else can be

Re: Getting IPv6 route advertisements to work over WG

2018-08-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 27.08.2018 16:46, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: > The tunnel could be initially established with no tunnel addresses, It could also be initially established with one non-forwarded tunnel address, allowing you to converse through the tunnel with standard tools, and without adding unnecessary

RE: Getting IPv6 route advertisements to work over WG

2018-08-27 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
I laughed in my head. :) For what my two cents are worth, L2 WireGuard would have its (limited) use cases, but nothing beats having a simple and effective mono-purpose protocol like we do now. Everything else can be solved with OpenVPN or appropriate SDN techniques running on top of WG. And

Re: Getting IPv6 route advertisements to work over WG

2018-08-27 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:32:49 +0200 netrav...@gmail.com wrote: > When using multicast over WireGuard, would it not be more viable to use > an extra encapsulation layer to run multicast inside of? > > I am specifically thinking of running either GRE or L2TPv3 over wgX. I know people run VXLAN or

Getting IPv6 route advertisements to work over WG

2018-08-27 Thread Roman Mamedov
Hello, I am trying to get IPv6 link-local IPs and route advertisements to work over WG. The reason is not for the usual case of address autoconfiguration, but to use RA as a dynamic routing protocol of sorts, as it can distribute routes -- or in case of WG (where routes need to be static in