add/remove a peer

Kalin KOZHUHAROV me.kalin at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 21:17:35 CEST 2018


On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:10 PM, ST <smntov at gmail.com> wrote:
> PS: if you have over 100 peers it is a bit a headache to find a free IP
> when adding a new peer. There is no reason WG could not scan through IPs
> it already knows and choose a free one, assign it in its own config file
> and print it out for passing to the remote peer...
>
There is a reason, at least one, good one - it is called simplicity.
It is also hard to work when you are running out of disk space or
memory; do you expect WG to solve that for you?
Simply put, IP addressing schemes are not a part of WG, neither a requirement.
There are many ways to use WG and "assign random, free IP address and
send to a new peer" is too specific of a use case.

May be you can cobble up something with a DHCP server that cares about
certain address range?
Or a simple flat-file dB and a script that does it for you?

What happens when you run out of addresses?
How do you re-assign an IP address to a new peer?
...
Those are questions widely outside WG, IMHO.

Cheers,
Kalin.


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