Re: Request: Optional "Comment" [Peer] entry

["Manuel Schölling" <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>]

I like the idea of comments!

And while we're at it: having multiple [Peer] section in incompatible
with most other config parsing tools (e.g. python std library's
configparser [1]).
Maybe we could allow the peer section names to be of the form "Peer[A-
Za-z0-9\-]*" or something?
You could also use it for naming peers, i.e. using "Peer-(?P<name>[A-
Za-z0-9\-]+)".

Bye,

Manuel

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/configparser.html

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 14:31 -0600, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> I have a suggestion, feature request ...
> 
> With several peers, the output of "wg show" is difficult to visually
> identify the peers at a quick glance.
> 
> How about an optional "Comment = " entry for the [Peer] section.
> 
> For Example:
> --
> [Peer]
> PublicKey = UMJMPFVTzjmzr7SJMQ7k+Z+3Pr1aq4w+5chtUny6Akg=
> Endpoint = [fda6:66b2:b74a:50::3]:51820
> AllowedIPs = 10.4.0.2/32
> Comment = pbx3 - Jetway NF9HG-2930
> --
> 
> For each peer in "wg show" with a "Comment = " defined ...
> --
> peer: HIgo9xNzJMWLKASShiTqIybxZ0U3wGLiUeJ1PKf8ykw=
>   endpoint: [fda6:662b:b74a:50::3]:51820
>   allowed ips: 10.4.0.2/32
>   latest handshake: 3 seconds ago
>   transfer: 376 B received, 680 B sent
>   comment: pbx3 - Jetway NF9HG-2930
> --
> 
> If others like this idea, should the comment be displayed first,
> last, etc. ?
> 
> Truncating the comment string to 64 characters would be fine.  Or
> even 32 chars.
> 
> Thoughts ?
> 
> Lonnie
> 
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