What are the options for stopping and starting?

[Whit Blauvelt]

Hi Aaron,

Yes, removing the link should disable it. But that's overkill. Assuming I
want to leave the device in place, and the IP assignments there for
subsequent use by WireGuard, is there a simple way to shut WireGuard off,
without tearing down more than required?

If I'm running a VPN on a tun or tap device, for instance, I don't have to
remove the device to turn the VPN software off. I'm looking for the minimal,
not maximal, way to do that with WireGuard -- the equivalent to shutting
down a daemon in user space.

Thanks,
Whit

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 05:31:35PM +0000, Aaron Jones wrote:
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> On 04/12/17 17:29, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> > Is there a preferred way to take WireGuard fully down? We could
> > unload the wireguard (and ip6_udp_tunnel and udp_tunnel?) modules.
> > But that seems a crude method. What's perferred? I see we can "set
> > <interface> remove", but is there a simple command to take them all
> > down? (One could obviously be scripted; just wondering if I'm
> > missing that one's already there.)
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> # ip link del dev wg0
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> Regards,
> Aaron Jones