Re: Wireguard Plugin for NM

[Maximilian Moser <e1326252 student tuwien ac at>]

Hey Thomas,

I added a link to https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN

Pretty damn cool, thanks!

I still think, it would be great to have wireguard support in
NetworkManager not via a VPN plugin. But that is for another day.

Yeah, maybe we're not so far away from that point (excerpt from the wireguard mailing list):

This is wonderful news. I'm happy to work with you to make sure this
comes out perfectly, and maybe when it's finished we can submit it
upstream to NetworkManager, similar to how systemd-networkd now has
WireGuard support built-in.

last time i looked, network-manager included a local copy of a big chunk
of systemd code.  so it's possible that a newer version of
network-manager will already have the systemd-networkd code available to
it, and you just need to hook into it correctly from the nm internals.

        --dkg

Best regards,

Max

On 15/02/18 12:39, Thomas Haller wrote:

On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 13:20 +0100, Maximilian Moser wrote:

Good day, ladies and gentlemen!


It has been a while, but recently I have finally found time to work
on 
the VPN Plugin for Wireguard for my Bachelor's thesis.
The project is based on the OpenVPN plugin (which means it's more or 
less pure C) and can now be found on github: 
https://github.com/max-moser/network-manager-wireguard

At this point, I'd like to thank Manuel Schölling and Thomas Haller
for 
indirectly providing me with hints regarding the completion of 
connection set-up (SetConfig(), anyone?) through their mail exchange!

Hi Maximilian,


cool, thanks for letting us know.

I added a link to https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN


I still think, it would be great to have wireguard support in
NetworkManager not via a VPN plugin. But that is for another day.


best,
Thomas