Re: starting off with wireguard

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi Greg

I have my little amateur radio server working for weeks with no issue using wg with 44Net tunnel. I remember I had to load the module to make it work.

https://ea4nz.ampr.org/hamradio

I put some instructions for NetBSD 

https://ea4nz.ampr.org/hamradio/ampr/ampr.html

Regards.
Ramiro

https://ea4nz.ampr.org/hamradio





El 19 de marzo de 2026 0:30:34 CET, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> escribió:
>I have been sort of following for a long time, and am now trying to
>configure wg.
>
>I find that "pseudo-device wg" is required in the kernel (no surprise!)
>but am surprised by:
>
>   - it's not available as a module in 10 or 11
>   - it's not in GENERIC for amd64 in 10 or 11
>   - it's not in GENERIC for evbarm anything in 10 or 11
>
>Is this a clue that?
>
>   - I'm confused.
>   - wg is really not baked (the "EXPERIMENTAL" label) and people
>     believe it is flaky or likely does not provide the confidentiality
>     one expects.
>   - wg is believed fine and many use it but for some good reason people
>     think you should have to build a kernel.
>   - wg is believed fine and nobody has gotten around to adding it.
>
>In my case, I'm more looking for circumvention of clumsy/IT-trendy
>censorship, where they let you connect to anything on 443 and block nerd
>protocols (because proles accessing Facebook is wholesome, apparently).
>So I'm not super concerned about confidentiality.
>
>Related, it seems wg is UDP only, and assuming that's true, what ports
>do people find is most likely to work in semi-censored environments?
>
>