Using wg-quick without having it set routes

[PGNet Dev]

On 11/21/20 4:59 AM, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently started using wireguard as a VPN between my home
> network[s] and my external servers. In addition to this I have been
> deploying it on other machines I would like to have connected to my
> network via VPN (mostly friends who I want to have access to my
> internal network, and me to their machines for remote admin/trouble
> shoothing).
> 
> I am running Debian and had set things up using
> /etc/network/interfaces.d/ files. I was wanting move to use wg-quick
> with systemd - trying to bring up newly created interfaces on the main
> server/termination point using wg-quick leads to wg trying to create
> routes for all IP ranges in "AllowedIPs". I would like to be able to
> _not_ have this happen, is it possible? Or should I just stick with the
> interfaces.d file method and "auto wg[0-N]"?
> 


You can disable auto-route generation with

	Table = off


e.g.,

	Disable (auto) routing for Wireguard
	 https://shibumi.dev/posts/disable-routing-for-wireguard/

Of course, any required routing is then your responsibility ...