
One VPN technology I wanted to try out for quite some time now is Wireguard. Everybody I talk to about the topic speaks very highly of it but unfortunately, the stable version was just released a bit too late for proper NetworkManager support to be included in Ubuntu 20.04 last year. While I could live with a couple of scripts to establish and tear down a tunnel to my home network, that’s unfortunately not an option for others I work with. But then I remembered that OpenWrt, the open source Linux operating system for embedded network devices such as Wi-Fi access points, has support for the protocol. And as I just needed to update a Linksys WRT-1200 AC Wi-Fi Router to the latest OpenWrt version anyway, I used the opportunity to gain some experience with the protocol along the way.
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