Text-based IPC for Userspace Implementations

[Ivan Labáth]

Hello,

does changing one peer affect settings of another
peer if they have common allowed_ips?

Regards,
Ivan Labáth

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:36:00PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Currently wg(8) talks to the kernel by passing structs through an
> ioctl. Due to upstream demands, this is going to be changed to
> netlink, and we'll ditch those structs. wg(8) previously tried to
> re-use those same structs for userspace implementations, passing them
> through a unix socket. Implementors did not like dealing with this.
> Since the structs are going for the kernel stuff, we might as well
> move to something better, too, for the userspace stuff. Therefore
> wg(8) now has a very simple text-based IPC format over unix sockets
> (or Windows named pipes) that can be easily implemented in nearly
> every language, even bash.
> 
> I've written a small description of it here: https://www.wireguard.io/xplatform/
> 
> This will be part of the next snapshot.
> 
> Any questions?
> 
> Regards,
> Jason
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