From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>
To: Chriztoffer Hansen <ch@ntrv.dk>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: Source IP for multihomed peer
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:25:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r4mk848.fsf@proton.d.airelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+cYV6t=doigei7mH-77oZrq=_uMmCn_kRxhfXku+XC75moU=A@mail.gmail.com> (Chriztoffer Hansen's message of "Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:57:20 +0200")
Hi Chriztoffer,
Chriztoffer Hansen <ch@ntrv.dk> writes:
> In the prototyping patch you developed for WireGuard, did you consider
> prototyping being able to bind to an interface, instead of explicitly
> specifying an IP address?
No we did not. We wanted to keep the patch as small as possible.
That said, we could manage it by an auxiliary script.
> An example case for being able to bind to an interface could be a
> multi-wan connected firewall/router with dynamic public IP addresses
> offered by the upstream provider no at least one
> connection. E.g. Primary fiber line, backup DSL line.
Yeah, that's a common use case.
Cheers,
Benda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-15 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-14 8:30 Source IP for multihomed peer Svenne Krap
2021-10-15 2:39 ` Benda Xu
2021-10-15 7:57 ` Chriztoffer Hansen
2021-10-15 8:25 ` Benda Xu [this message]
2021-10-15 8:54 ` Svenne Krap
2021-10-15 10:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-10-15 11:14 ` Chriztoffer Hansen
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