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Exciting! This should include native wireguard support..

techietim 5y ago
I have been using the Wireguard support in the beta release for most of this past year. Having a persistent connection from my Android phone and my wife's iPhone was simple with the built-in Mikrotik DDNS service. It makes checking on things like security cameras nice if you do not want to use a cloud service.
dcow 5y ago
Yep! I’ve been using the beta and it’s awesome. What other vendors include native WG support? Historically the concept of a performant VPN router pushed you into the realm of enterprise level expensive hardware. Now you can do it on cheap arm cores. It’s game changing.
oriettaxx 5y ago
Yes, exactly!! Wireguard is a must for us now! I've been using professionally on MikroTik, too, almost everything worked as expected! (only some issue with being able to export settings... I hope it's solved now)
Hamuko 5y ago
I used to want Wireguard on my router. It was in fact one of the reasons why I went with an EdgeRouter X. Then one day, when I was away from home and actually needed the VPN, it absolutely melted. Basically everything on the router stopped working, and I suspect it was Wireguard since the router went haywire when I was actually using it extensively. Needed a hard power cycle, which I couldn't actually do. These days I just leave my router to do its basic duties and have a Raspberry Pi dedicated to nothing but Wireguard. Haven't had issues since. The Pi 2 Model B also performs better for Wireguard and I imagine that the Pi 4 could saturate my 100 Mb/s upload.
- liuliu 5y ago
  I sort of only want WG support in EdgeRouter as WG client such that my homes in different geographical locations can share the same network transparently. Is that still a good use?
  - Hamuko 5y ago
    Since there's no actual WG support in EdgeRouters and the experiences I've had with the community-maintained version, I'd personally not go that route. You can probably get better bang for your buck by configuring a couple of Raspberry Pis. Granted, it's been a hot minute since I've last tried WG on EdgeRouters.
blibble 5y ago
hopefully it's better than their IPSec support I love my mikrotik devices, but they can be a bit iffy around the edges (e.g. if my pppoe connection reconnects the ipsec stops working until the interface is bounced)

I have been using the Wireguard support in the beta release for most of this past year. Having a persistent connection from my Android phone and my wife's iPhone was simple with the built-in Mikrotik DDNS service. It makes checking on things like security cameras nice if you do not want to use a cloud service.

dcow 5y ago

Yep! I’ve been using the beta and it’s awesome. What other vendors include native WG support? Historically the concept of a performant VPN router pushed you into the realm of enterprise level expensive hardware. Now you can do it on cheap arm cores. It’s game changing.

oriettaxx 5y ago

Yes, exactly!! Wireguard is a must for us now! I've been using professionally on MikroTik, too, almost everything worked as expected! (only some issue with being able to export settings... I hope it's solved now)

Hamuko 5y ago

I used to want Wireguard on my router. It was in fact one of the reasons why I went with an EdgeRouter X. Then one day, when I was away from home and actually needed the VPN, it absolutely melted. Basically everything on the router stopped working, and I suspect it was Wireguard since the router went haywire when I was actually using it extensively. Needed a hard power cycle, which I couldn't actually do. These days I just leave my router to do its basic duties and have a Raspberry Pi dedicated to nothing but Wireguard. Haven't had issues since. The Pi 2 Model B also performs better for Wireguard and I imagine that the Pi 4 could saturate my 100 Mb/s upload.

liuliu 5y ago
I sort of only want WG support in EdgeRouter as WG client such that my homes in different geographical locations can share the same network transparently. Is that still a good use?
- Hamuko 5y ago
  Since there's no actual WG support in EdgeRouters and the experiences I've had with the community-maintained version, I'd personally not go that route. You can probably get better bang for your buck by configuring a couple of Raspberry Pis. Granted, it's been a hot minute since I've last tried WG on EdgeRouters.

blibble 5y ago

hopefully it's better than their IPSec support I love my mikrotik devices, but they can be a bit iffy around the edges (e.g. if my pppoe connection reconnects the ipsec stops working until the interface is bounced)