Wireguard

Connect FreeBSD to OpenBSD using WireGuard

       622 words, 3 minutes

I have deployed a monitoring VPS somewhere on someone else’s computer and I want all my other servers to send it their metrics and logs and alerts etc. But in order to cruise the Wild Wild Web in a safer way, I connect all those nodes using WireGuard. Recently I deployed a FreeBSD instance in such a way that it has to initiate the connection to the OpenBSD monitoring server using WireGuard. That’s what those notes are about.

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A mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard

       752 words, 4 minutes

WireGuard is a new coming to OpenBSD 6.8 and it looks like a simple and efficient way to connect computers. I own a few VPS (hello Vultr, hello OpenBSD.amsterdam) that tend to be connected through filtered public services and/or SSH tunnels. And that’s neither efficient nor easy to manage. Here comes the wg(4) era where all those peers will communicate with a bit more privacy and ease of management.

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