[lug] Security - Wireguard

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Sat Jun 29 11:20:14 MDT 2019


On 6/29/2019 10:58 AM, Bucky Carr wrote:
> Okay, thanks for the update. I didn't know there is a GUI for OpenVPN. 
> One thing especially I don't like about OpenVPN is how chatty it is. 
> Sending those keeplive packets all the time. I don't seem to need the 
> keepalive packets with Wireguard.

You might be surprised.

It probably depends on your exact configuration, but if you're using NAT 
of any kind you're going to need keep-alive packets or the NAT hardware 
will close your connection.

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