WG default routing

[Corey Costello]

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I’ve tried like 4 times replying to the wireguard list and it says Unsubscribed! And then comes back :( 

> On Jan 5, 2021, at 6:50 PM, Phillip McMahon <phillip.mcmahon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris, you first post made it sound very much like a query on
> wg-quick, it's mentioned in a way that implies you're using it.
> 
> "...My first try was with wg-quick, and noticed all my traffic went
> through the WG-VPN connection.
> It escapes me why. What is the idea behind this policy?
> 
> On my Linux boxes it's not a problem, I don't have to use wg-quick and
> with few lines of bash in a script I have what I need. I have
> root...."
> 
> On the working config I have, multiple clients, multiple wg tunnels
> and policy-based routing, AllowedIPs does set up entries in my routing
> table. Not setting another in AllowedIPs results in what you are
> seeing, no traffic flow as their are no routes established. wg uses
> your standard OS functionality for routing, try adding those routes
> manually and no in the wg config and you should see quickly traffic
> start to flow.
> 
> AllowedIPs function in the config is to easily encapsulate simple
> routing requirements for tunnels that probably satisfies the needs of
> most simple users. Stick in 0.0.0.0/0 and everything goes down the
> pipe, or add specific ranges you want to go down the pipe and nothing
> else.
> 
> Or you can go your own route (no pun intended) and make full use of
> your OS routing and IP capability to get as complex as you need.
> 
> wg doesn't have a policy to take over your routing, but if you use
> wg-quick as mentioned in your first post it's taking care of lots of
> things for ease of use and based on the content of your config might
> take over all routing.
> 
> Post your config and what you actually want to achieve and I am sure
> this mailing list will have you up and running in no time.
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 22:16, Chris Osicki <wg at osk.ch> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:25:30AM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote:
>>> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 21:12:12 +0100
>>> Chris Osicki <wg at osk.ch> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> As far as I can see after few tests, AllowedIPs config file option has nothing to do with routing and I hope
>>>> it will stay like this.
>>> 
>>> wg-quick uses AllowedIPs to also set up matching entries in the system routing
>>> table. This can be disabled in its config.
>>> 
>>>> It is just a filter
>>> 
>>> It is not only a filter on incoming packets, but also WG's internal routing
>>> table for knowing which packets should be sent to which peer.
>> 
>> I'm sorry to contradict you but after some more readig I have to :-)
>> WG has no "internal routing table", wg-quick (which, BTW, is not the subject of my query) uses it to modify
>> kernel routing tables, from the wg-quick man page:
>> 
>>       It infers all routes from the list of peers' allowed IPs, and automatically adds them to  the  system  routing
>>       table.  If  one  of  those  routes is the default route (0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0), then it uses ip-rule(8) to handle
>>       overriding of the default gateway.
>> 
>> So, in my test config I have a server, 10.10.10.1 and two clients, 10.10.10.2/3
>> If on the server I remove the AllowedIPs option, no one can connect.
>> Giving AllowedIPs = 10.10.10.0/24 both clients can connect and routing in them stays as it was.
>> The same for the clients, without AllowedIPs = 10.10.10.0/24 cannot connect.
>> 
>> Thus, my question still remains: why this filtering function?
>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> With respect,
>>> Roman
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Chris
> 
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