wireguard works for 10.0.0.x/24, but not for 10.10.10.x/24

Morten Christensen mc-mail at g.mc.cx
Sat Aug 25 11:47:11 CEST 2018


Den 25-08-2018 04:12, skrev Sitaram Chamarty:
> Hi
>
> I have a very peculiar problem.
>
> My wireguard server serves up for my laptop and phone using
> 10.0.0.1 as its own IP, and .2 and .3 respectively as my laptop
> and phone's IPs.
>
> But if I switch it to any other subnet, like 192.168.25.x/24, or
> even 10.10.10.x/24, it does not work.
>
> (Before someone asks, yes I did remember to change the wg0.conf
> on both sides before flipping the switch.)
>
> I can provide more details, I can run any debugging commands you
> ask me to, but there is literally no other difference except a
> `:%s/10.0.0/10.10.10/g` in /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf, on both
> sides.
>
> I am using the wg-quick command, if it matters.
>
> I can ping from the laptop to the server (10.10.10.2 ->
> 10.10.10.1).  I can access services running locally on the
> server (such as tcp/80 or udp/53).  "traceroute" will show the
> first hop as 10.10.10.1, but after that -- silence.  It just
> won't go beyond that.
>
> So whatever it is, it seems to be on the server side. Packets
> make it to the remote endpoint, but don't get routed out to the
> internet after that.

Most times vpn-packets get a step further. The remote endpoint do not 
know how to return them to the vpn-server.

Is your wireguard-server the router/gateway on your system ?

--

Morten Christensen



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