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When comparing Wireguard with OpenVPN, it’s worth mentioning that: * While creating a point to point tunnel is straightforward with Wireguard, it’s the network
by aborsy 5y ago
When comparing Wireguard with OpenVPN, it’s worth mentioning that:
* While creating a point to point tunnel is straightforward with Wireguard, it’s the networking part that takes time.
You need to do a bit of networking to set up firewall, access internet and other networks, etc, that may not follow a standard formula depending on your set up.
* Wireguard creates a tunnel. OpenVPN does a lot more, such as authentication, etc. The tunneling part of OpenVPN is much smaller than the whole
* Wireguard doesn’t support TCP
- tptacek 5y agoThe stuff that WireGuard doesn't do is part of the appeal. WireGuard is simple to understand (and audit), behaves consistently, and is easy to build on top of.
- aborsy 5y agoWould you say that a base Wireguard installation is a solution for enterprise? And that, stuff that tailscale adds is superfluous or not appealing? The complexity rapidly grows as you scale, mostly pertaining to networking. Now a better question is, how does OpenVPN compare with tailscale?!
- throwaway2048 5y agostandard networking stack handle all that stuff already, replicating it in a VPN protocol sucks.