Reflections on WireGuard Design Goals

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 17:15 Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11/08/18 22:52, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:
> > I see these wireguard extra features just like dhcp is. Nobody
> > thinks about implementing dhcp inside kernel or even iproute
> > tools.
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> The Linux kernel has a (minimal, non-configurable) DHCP client already
> (used for rootfs on NFS without an initramfs, among other things).
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> CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
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This is in fact true, but I'm not sure we're planning on following suite
with that kind of thing in kernel space for WireGuard...




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