[PATCH] wg-quick: add restart command

Eric Light eric at ericlight.com
Wed Jun 17 10:18:17 CEST 2020


Sorry, failure to complete my thought before I sent:

"wg-quick wg0 restart" fits much more tightly with the familiar "service x restart" pattern.

E

--------------------------------------------
Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?
A: http://five.sentenc.es

On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, at 20:16, Eric Light wrote:
> As a purely Debian user, the 'service x restart' pattern is far more 
> memorable than the syncconf method.  I know personal preference isn't a 
> great reason to add a knob, but Garrit's method is probably going to be 
> much more familiar to many users.
> 
> As to _when_ you'd need this... during a config update as you 
> mentioned, but possibly also to easily generate logs for 
> troubleshooting a config I suppose?
> 
> E
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?
> A: http://five.sentenc.es
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, at 19:47, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Thanks for the patchset. I'm wondering what the intended use case of
> > this is. When do you need to set the interface down and then
> > immediately up again? Most changes to the config file can be reflected
> > with a more simple:
> > 
> > wg syncconf wg0 <(wg-quick strip wg0)
> >
>


More information about the WireGuard mailing list