wg-quick up (on linux) fails in case of several default routes

[Chris]

Oh, this is veeery suprising, I did not expect that:
It is the standard recent ubuntu repo:

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dpkg -S `which wg-quick`
wireguard-tools: /usr/bin/wg-quick

apt-cache policy wireguard-tools
wireguard-tools:
   Installed: 1.0.20200513-1~20.04.2
   Candidate: 1.0.20200513-1~20.04.2
   Version table:
  *** 1.0.20200513-1~20.04.2 500
         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      1.0.20200319-1ubuntu1 500
         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
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On 06/10/2020 15:47, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On 10/6/20, Chris <wireguard at spam-free.eu> wrote:
>> Hello Jason,
>>
>> setup is
>> two default routes with diffenrent metrics (the second being the failover in
>>
>> case the lower metric connection goes down).
>> For good reasons wg-quick will setup an individual route to the wg server
>> (for
>> the possibility of changing th default route afterwards).
>> However wg-quick fails:
>>
>> ******log follows***********
>> wg-quick up wg_client
>> [#] ip link add wg_client type wireguard
>> [#] wg setconf wg_client /dev/fd/63
>> [#] ip -4 address add 10.0.129.200/24 dev wg_client
>> [#] ip link set mtu 1420 up dev wg_client
>> [#] GATEW=$(ip route list 0.0.0.0/0|sed -n 's/.* via \(.*\)
>> dev.*/\1/p');route
>> add s1.spam-free.eu gw $GATEW
>> SIOCADDRT: No such device
> Where did you get your wg-quick? I would never name a variable 'GATEW'
> or print out an expression like that to the console. IOW, I don't
> recognize what's happening here because this doesn't seem to be code
> I've shipped.
>
>
>> [#] ip link delete dev wg_client
>> ******log  end  ***********
>>
>> The point is, that GATEW is NOT a single address but rather a list of ip
>> addresses and the command setting the route fails.
>>
>> Instead one should always run through ALL default gateways and set
>> individual
>> routes to the server through ALL the default gateways with the same metric
>> as
>> the respective default route.
>> This will then also work in case the failover route is in operation.
>>
>> Of course, tearing down the client should delete ALL individual routes to
>> the
>> server.
>> Hope this clarifies is a bit.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> On 06/10/2020 14:20, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:51 PM Chris <wireguard at spam-free.eu> wrote:
>>>> wg-quick tries to set the route to the wg server through the default
>>>> gateway.
>>> On Linux? It shouldn't be iterating default gateways at all, but
>>> rather using suppress_prefix. Can you provide more technical
>>> information about what you're seeing and maybe a patch to fix the
>>> issue?
>>>
>>> Jason