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26.Dd February 2, 2021
27.Dt WG 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm wg
31.Nd "WireGuard - pseudo-device"
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in
34.Xr loader.conf 5 :
35.Bd -literal -offset indent
36if_wg_load="YES"
37.Ed
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41driver provides Virtual Private Network (VPN) interfaces for the secure
42exchange of layer 3 traffic with other WireGuard peers using the WireGuard
43protocol.
44.Pp
45A
46.Nm
47interface recognises one or more peers, establishes a secure tunnel with
48each on demand, and tracks each peer's UDP endpoint for exchanging encrypted
49traffic with.
50.Pp
51The interfaces can be created at runtime using the
52.Ic ifconfig Cm wg Ns Ar N Cm create
53command.
54The interface itself can be configured with
55.Xr ifconfig 8 .
56.Pp
57The following parameters are available:
58.Bl -tag -width indent
59.It Cm listen-port
60The listing port of the
61.Nm
62interface.
63.It Cm public-key
64The public key of the
65.Nm
66interface.
67.It Cm private-key
68The private key of the
69.Nm
70interface.
71.It Cm pre-shared-key
72Defines a pre-shared key for the
73.Nm
74interface.
75.It Cm allowed-ips
76A list of allowed IP addresses.
77.It Cm endpoint
78The IP address of the WiredGuard to connect to.
79.It Cm peer-list
80A list of peering IP addresses to connect to.
81.El
82.Pp
83The
84.Nm
85interfaces support the following
86.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s :
87.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent
88.It Dv SIOCSWG Fa "struct  wg_device_io *"
89Set the device configuration.
90.It Dv SIOCGWG Fa "struct wg_device_io *"
91Get the device configuration.
92.El
93.Pp
94The following glossary provides a brief overview of WireGuard
95terminology:
96.Bl -tag -width indent -offset 3n
97.It Peer
98Peers exchange IPv4 or IPv6 traffic over secure tunnels.
99Each
100.Nm
101interface may be configured to recognise one or more peers.
102.It Key
103Each peer uses its private key and corresponding public key to
104identify itself to others.
105A peer configures a
106.Nm
107interface with its own private key and with the public keys of its peers.
108.It Pre-shared key
109In addition to the public keys, each peer pair may be configured with a
110unique pre-shared symmetric key.
111This is used in their handshake to guard against future compromise of the
112peers' encrypted tunnel if a quantum-computational attack on their
113Diffie-Hellman exchange becomes feasible.
114It is optional, but recommended.
115.It Allowed IPs
116A single
117.Nm
118interface may maintain concurrent tunnels connecting diverse networks.
119The interface therefore implements rudimentary routing and reverse-path
120filtering functions for its tunneled traffic.
121These functions reference a set of allowed IP ranges configured against
122each peer.
123.Pp
124The interface will route outbound tunneled traffic to the peer configured
125with the most specific matching allowed IP address range, or drop it
126if no such match exists.
127.Pp
128The interface will accept tunneled traffic only from the peer
129configured with the most specific matching allowed IP address range
130for the incoming traffic, or drop it if no such match exists.
131That is, tunneled traffic routed to a given peer cannot return through
132another peer of the same
133.Nm
134interface.
135This ensures that peers cannot spoof another's traffic.
136.It Handshake
137Two peers handshake to mutually authenticate each other and to
138establish a shared series of secret ephemeral encryption keys.
139Any peer may initiate a handshake.
140Handshakes occur only when there is traffic to send, and recur every
141two minutes during transfers.
142.It Connectionless
143Due to the handshake behavior, there is no connected or disconnected
144state.
145.El
146.Ss Keys
147Private keys for WireGuard can be generated from any sufficiently
148secure random source.
149The Curve25519 keys and the pre-shared keys are both 32 bytes
150long and are commonly encoded in base64 for ease of use.
151.Pp
152Keys can be generated with
153.Xr openssl 1
154as follows:
155.Pp
156.Dl $ openssl rand -base64 32
157.Pp
158Although a valid Curve25519 key must have 5 bits set to
159specific values, this is done by the interface and so it
160will accept any random 32-byte base64 string.
161.Pp
162When an interface has a private key set with
163.Nm public-key ,
164the corresponding
165public key is shown in the status output of the interface:
166.Bd -literal -offset indent
167# ifconfig wg0 | grep public-key
168       public-key:  7lWtsDdqaGB3EY9WNxRN3hVaHMtu1zXw71+bOjNOVUw=
169.Ed
170.Sh EXAMPLES
171Create a
172.Nm
173interface and set random private key.
174.Bd -literal -offset indent
175# ifconfig wg0 create listen-port 54321 private-key `openssl rand -base64 32`
176.Ed
177.Pp
178Retrieve the associated public key from a
179.Nm
180interface.
181.Bd -literal -offset indent
182$ ifconfig wg0 | awk '/public-key/ { print $2 }'`
183.Ed
184.Pp
185Connect to a specific endpoint using its public-key and set the allowed IP address
186.Bd -literal -offset indent
187# ifconfig wg0 peer '7lWtsDdqaGB3EY9WNxRN3hVaHMtu1zXw71+bOjNOVUw=' endpoint 10.0.1.100 allowed-ips 192.168.2.100/32
188.Ed
189.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
190The
191.Nm
192interface supports runtime debugging, which can be enabled with:
193.Pp
194.D1 Ic ifconfig Cm wg Ns Ar N Cm debug
195.Pp
196Some common error messages include:
197.Bl -diag
198.It "Handshake for peer X did not complete after 5 seconds, retrying"
199Peer X did not reply to our initiation packet, for example because:
200.Bl -bullet
201.It
202The peer does not have the local interface configured as a peer.
203Peers must be able to mutually authenticate each other.
204.It
205The peer endpoint IP address is incorrectly configured.
206.It
207There are firewall rules preventing communication between hosts.
208.El
209.It "Invalid handshake initiation"
210The incoming handshake packet could not be processed.
211This is likely due to the local interface not containing
212the correct public key for the peer.
213.It "Invalid initiation MAC"
214The incoming handshake initiation packet had an invalid MAC.
215This is likely because the initiation sender has the wrong public key
216for the handshake receiver.
217.It "Packet has unallowed src IP from peer X"
218After decryption, an incoming data packet has a source IP address that
219is not assigned to the allowed IPs of Peer X.
220.El
221.Sh SEE ALSO
222.Xr inet 4 ,
223.Xr ip 4 ,
224.Xr netintro 4 ,
225.Xr ipf 5 ,
226.Xr pf.conf 5 ,
227.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
228.Xr ipfw 8
229.Rs
230.%T WireGuard whitepaper
231.%U https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
232.Re
233.Sh HISTORY
234The
235.Nm
236device driver first appeared in
237.Fx 13.0 .
238.Sh AUTHORS
239The
240.Nm
241device driver was originally written for
242.Ox
243by
244.An Matt Dunwoodie Aq Mt ncon@nconroy.net
245and ported to
246.Fx
247by
248.An Matt Macy Aq Mt mmacy@FreeBSD.org .
249.Pp
250This manual page was written by
251.An Gordon Bergling Aq Mt gbe@FreeBSD.org
252and is based on the
253.Ox
254manual page written by
255.An David Gwynne Aq Mt dlg@openbsd.org .
256