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Wireguard on wAP AC

Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:10 pm

I wanted to test the new Wireguard stuff so I upgraded a wAP AC to 7.1beta6 and tried to set it up according to the guides and using my iPad as a client. Doing so, I see no traffic on the wireguard interface on the wAP AC at all. When I use nmap to scan the wireguard port, I do see a couple of packets in my firewall rule, so I can get traffic to the mikrotik unit.

Now, before I start digging into this, should this work at all or am I barking up a dead tree here?
 
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Re: Wireguard on wAP AC

Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:16 pm

Can you confirm what you are actually trying to do?
Draw a network diagram to illustrate.
 
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Re: Wireguard on wAP AC

Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:41 pm

Right now, it’s very simple. Maybe it is too simple and that is the problem.

I just want to see a WireGuard connection between my iPad and the wAP AC unit, both on the same local network 192.168.0.0/24. Nothing in between the two devices except switches and another wireless AP.
 
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Re: Wireguard on wAP AC

Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:47 pm

Make sure the "allowed addresses" setting is set to 0.0.0.0/0. ROS has a bug where you have to set it through the terminal because the GUI keeps deleting it because eit thinks it's not needed.
 
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Re: Wireguard on wAP AC

Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:33 am

Just as a data point, if you're using the original wAP AC (not the new version that released a couple of months ago-ish) then you have zero hardware crypto acceleration.

With the old version (which I have 5 of); if/when you get it to "work", it will not be fast.
You have a single meager MIPSBE core with zero hardware crypto acceleration. Also, Wave1 AC, not Wave2 (with ROS7 and the Wave2 package).
The new ones have a quad-core ARM cpu with hardware acceleration for non-GCM ciphers (traditional AES CBC and CTR modes).
 
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Re: Wireguard on wAP AC

Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:11 am

Wireguard doesn't traditionally have hardware acceleration anyway, but is still known for being very efficient and fast regardless.
 
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Re: Wireguard on wAP AC

Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:11 pm

All good suggestions. I’ll look into it.

At least it sounds like this should work so I’ve probably made some error in the config.

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