Wireguard Wizard - 7.11b4

See here, did a quite interesting discovery yesterday when toying with AX Lite:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/v7-11beta-testing-is-released/167585/182

From the devices I have at home, I could only verify this on AX3 and AX Lite device running 7.11b4.
Not on AX2 ??
Neither on RB5009, Hex, mAP, mAP Lite,…

Looks like they made a wizard for wireguard VPN to home.

Already asked support about it (and obviously some more documentation).

Yeah, NO! More people setting up wireguard without a clue of what they actually did or why.

This function is not available on the hAP ac3. It would be interesting to test.
Additionally, I would like to have the ability to connect to the router remotely through the cloud since not everyone has the option of having a public IP. I understand that this can be implemented using a VPS, but it’s not always convenient.

You can still do that with your VPN of choice ( but Anav and myself vote wireguard).
Only if using WG, you can for now not use this wizard.

How odd it is present on AX Lite but not AX2 ?

Thank you.
But if you’re behind NAT and have a grey IP, then the only way is through a VPS. That’s why I’m saying it would be nice to have a cloud feature, like tp-link, for example. Considering the fact that it’s not always secure, it should be disabled by default.

Not quite.

The only thing you need to have, is the ability to forward ports from your ISP router to your device where WG-tunnel will be terminated.
That’s how I have my setup at home as well, using DDNS since my IP is dynamic (though in practice I have never seen it change the past years).

CGNAT, that’s something else. Then you can only start the tunnel outbound, never inbound.

@ holvoetn

(though in practice I have never seen it change the past years).

it’s good for you :+1:t2:

and I could imagine that your line rate never below 75 percent of your service plan? maybe 1:1 subscription?

Not sure what you mean with 1:1.

I came from 200/20, during the years that was changed to 300/30 and now it is 500/30.
Quite a mismatch between up/down.
For some applications I would prefer to have more upstream, since that would allow me to use my home VPN pivot point a lot more (now it’s rather restricted because of the 30-up-limit).

And yes, when testing (stopped doing that some time ago since it was pointless) I rarely saw line rate going below 80-90% of contractual speed.
If it happened, it was usually very temporarily (one measurement, tested every hour).
If it was 0, then there were other issues :laughing:

Here is the first documentation about our new Back to Home VPN service: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Back+To+Home

Provides easy VPN to your router, even if behind NAT. Android app is being published today, iPhone app coming this or next week. Main use - take the phone app and enable it. Then use the same phone app to go “back to home” when you are away. Use internet through your home network, to have pihole block ads, or just to change your IP.

Gradual rollout to see what our relays are capable of, to slowly test load.

Supported now:

“L41G-2axD”
“L41G-2axD&FG621-EA”
“C52iG-5HaxD2HaxD-TC”
“C53UiG+5HPaxD2HPaxD”
“S53UG+5HaxD2HaxD-TC&FG621-EA”
“S53UG+5HaxD2HaxD-TC&EG18-EA”
“S53UG+M-5HaxD2HaxD-TC&RG502Q-EA”
“L009UiGS-2HaxD-IN”;

why on the link is not written the supported devices?

@ holvoetn

Not sure what you mean with 1:1.

as dedicated 1 ip 1 user (exact measurements of dhcp pool allocation). and the line being not over crowded/over subscribed :grinning_face:

500/30 - 1/6 compression. i think it’s above normal for home subscription, don’t you think? :+1:t2:

ok. back to the topic..

so, is this wg wizard only available on hw platform or bundled with ros releases?

interesting :thinking:

+100 for Mikrotik

Great feature!

I am happy to see that Mikrotik is slowly “embracing” the home user with its excellent products

Keep it up !

I am curious how this creates a connection without any modifications at the router end?
a. input chain rule (and this assumes that if there is no public IP on the router, the upstream router has port forwarded the port to the MT)??

Ahh I see this is only useful if you setup the smartphone when in proximity to the MT wifi.

Nah … you can perfectly set it up without mobile app.
Just did using Winbox, terminal, print QR code on screen using /ip cloud print (and make sure your terminal is zoomed out a lot using CTRL - minus)
Use QR code in Wireguard app on phone and done.
Could have done that perfectly from where ever in the world having access to that device.

Did diff check on AX3 (base setting, only using as AP with VLANs, so no firewall, nada).
2 lines were added:
/interface wireguard
add comment=“cloud vpn” listen-port=54272 mtu=1420 name=freevpn-wg
private-key=“”

and

/ip cloud
set back-to-home-vpn=enabled ddns-enabled=yes update-time=no

Which is odd … because in winbox I see the relay IP address being mentioned but it’s not in export ?
Or it is once again one of those oddities with export where defaults are not shown.
Hmm …

What I meant is that you have to set it up locally first and cannot magically do it when away for the first time.
But I see some benefits here.

And yet you can … sort of.

I can set it up, send YOU the QR code and off you go.
Did you touch my router then ? I don’t think so. I can even do so from Timbuktu.

My point being: “someone” needs to have access to the device to set it up. That’s a fact, true.
But you don’t need to be in the same LAN, nor do you need to be next to it.
There can be a zerotier connection or any other VPN (always safe to have a fallback solution, no ? :laughing: )

The reason for being in the same LAN as the device is only when there is no alternative connection available YET.
But if there is an alternative, the world is your playground for setting it up …

We have now widened supported device list, ARM/ARM64/TILE are now supported in 7.11beta6. Please test :slight_smile:

Well done, Although It would be awesome if Mikrotik could implant the WG Wizard in the main Wireguard section so one could use it for peer config generation like what we have now in OVPN.

Correct!

It should be a function available in the main section, and the quickset dummy capability then made available, build the core function first then the quickie way.

Quick…what ?
Are you promoting quickset now ?
:laughing: