Strange behavior when a peer has the same key as the interface

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Sun Sep 5 20:54:11 UTC 2021


On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 10:27 PM Vojtěch Káně <vojtech.kane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is by design across all implementations, so that multiple peers can share the same stanzas after the [Interface] section.
> Does that mean it's unfixable in the meaning you cannot detect it and
> return appropriate error?
>
>
> While being clearly my mistake, it took me multiple hours to understand
> the problem instead of simply getting `cannot set peer foo as it already
> is a public key of interface bar`.
>

It sounds like we really need to document that in more obvious places,
like wg(8), as that kind of confusion indeed must have been really
frustrating.

Jason


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