WireGuard/wireguard-go
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Where it stands
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The project lists 38 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 17% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements the WireGuard VPN protocol in Go for cross-platform network tunneling.
- Enables WireGuard functionality on platforms without native kernel support, providing portability and ease of deployment.
- Use for creating secure VPN tunnels on macOS where kernel modules are unavailable.
- Use for running WireGuard on FreeBSD or OpenBSD systems with user-space networking support.
- Use for integrating WireGuard VPN capabilities into Go-based applications or custom network tools.
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
This is an implementation of WireGuard in Go.
Most Linux kernel WireGuard users are used to adding an interface with
ip link add wg0 type wireguard. With wireguard-go, instead simply run:This will create an interface and fork into the background. To remove the interface, use the usual
ip link del wg0, or if your system does not support removing interfaces directly, you may instead remove the control socket viarm -f /var/run/wireguard/wg0.sock, which will result in wireguard-go shutting down.To run wireguard-go without forking to the background, pass
-for--foreground:When an interface is running, you may use
wg(8)to configure it, as well as the usualip(8)andifconfig(8)commands.To run with more logging you may set the environment variable
LOG_LEVEL=debug.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
1.7K+99
Open issues
34+1
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