Ubuntu Manpage: wg-quick - set up a WireGuard interface simply

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NAME

       wg-quick - set up a WireGuard interface simply

SYNOPSIS

       wg-quick [ up | down | save | strip ] [ CONFIG_FILE | INTERFACE ]

DESCRIPTION

       This  is  an  extremely  simple  script  for easily bringing up a WireGuard interface, suitable for a few
       common use cases.

       Use up to add and set up an interface, and use down to tear down and remove an interface. Running up adds
       a WireGuard interface, brings up the interface with the supplied IP addresses, sets up  mtu  and  routes,
       and optionally runs pre/post up scripts. Running down optionally saves the current configuration, removes
       the  WireGuard interface, and optionally runs pre/post down scripts. Running save saves the configuration
       of an existing interface without bringing the interface down. Use strip to output  a  configuration  file
       with all wg-quick(8)-specific options removed, suitable for use with wg(8).

       CONFIG_FILE is a configuration file, whose filename is the interface name followed by `.conf'. Otherwise,
       INTERFACE  is  an  interface  name, with configuration found at `/etc/wireguard/INTERFACE.conf', searched
       first, followed by distro-specific search paths.

       Generally speaking, this utility is just a simple script that wraps invocations to  wg(8)  and  ip(8)  in
       order  to  set  up a WireGuard interface. It is designed for users with simple needs, and users with more
       advanced needs are highly encouraged to use a more specific tool, a more  complete  network  manager,  or
       otherwise just use wg(8) and ip(8), as usual.

CONFIGURATION

The configuration file adds a few extra configuration values to the format understood by wg(8) in order
to configure additional attributes of an interface. It handles the values that it understands, and then
it passes the remaining ones directly to wg(8) for further processing.

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.

The configuration file will be passed directly to wg(8)'s `setconf' sub-command, with the exception of
the following additions to the Interface section, which are handled by this tool:

• Address — a comma-separated list of IP (v4 or v6) addresses (optionally with CIDR masks) to be
assigned to the interface. May be specified multiple times.

• DNS — a comma-separated list of IP (v4 or v6) addresses to be set as the interface's DNS servers,
or non-IP hostnames to be set as the interface's DNS search domains. May be specified multiple
times. Upon bringing the interface up, this runs `resolvconf -a tun.INTERFACE -m 0 -x` and upon
bringing it down, this runs `resolvconf -d tun.INTERFACE`. If these particular invocations of
resolvconf(8) are undesirable, the PostUp and PostDown keys below may be used instead.

• MTU — if not specified, the MTU is automatically determined from the endpoint addresses or the
system default route, which is usually a sane choice. However, to manually specify an MTU to
override this automatic discovery, this value may be specified explicitly.

• Table — Controls the routing table to which routes are added. There are two special values: `off'
disables the creation of routes altogether, and `auto' (the default) adds routes to the default
table and enables special handling of default routes.

• PreUp, PostUp, PreDown, PostDown — script snippets which will be executed by bash(1) before/after
setting up/tearing down the interface, most commonly used to configure custom DNS options or
firewall rules. The special string `%i' is expanded to INTERFACE. Each one may be specified
multiple times, in which case the commands are executed in order.

• SaveConfig — if set to `true', the configuration is saved from the current state of the interface
upon shutdown. Any changes made to the configuration file before the interface is removed will
therefore be overwritten.

Recommended INTERFACE names include `wg0' or `wgvpn0' or even `wgmgmtlan0'. However, the number at the
end is in fact optional, and really any free-form string [a-zA-Z0-9_=+.-]{1,15} will work. So even
interface names corresponding to geographic locations would suffice, such as `cincinnati', `nyc', or
`paris', if that's somehow desirable.

EXAMPLES

       These  examples  draw  on  the  same syntax found for wg(8), and a more complete description may be found
       there. Bold lines below are for options that extend wg(8).

       The following might be used for connecting as a client to a VPN gateway for tunneling all traffic:

           [Interface]
           Address = 10.200.100.8/24
           DNS = 10.200.100.1
           PrivateKey = oK56DE9Ue9zK76rAc8pBl6opph+1v36lm7cXXsQKrQM=

           [Peer]
           PublicKey = GtL7fZc/bLnqZldpVofMCD6hDjrK28SsdLxevJ+qtKU=
           PresharedKey = /UwcSPg38hW/D9Y3tcS1FOV0K1wuURMbS0sesJEP5ak=
           AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0
           Endpoint = demo.wireguard.com:51820

       The `Address` field is added here in order to set up the address  for  the  interface.  The  `DNS`  field
       indicates that a DNS server for the interface should be configured via resolvconf(8).  The peer's allowed
       IPs  entry  implies  that  this  interface should be configured as the default gateway, which this script
       does.

       Building on the last example, one might attempt the so-called ``kill-switch'', in order  to  prevent  the
       flow  of  unencrypted  packets  through  the  non-WireGuard interfaces, by adding the following two lines
       `PostUp` and `PreDown` lines to the `[Interface]` section:

           PostUp = iptables -I OUTPUT ! -o %i -m mark ! --mark $(wg show %i fwmark) -m  addrtype  !  --dst-type
       LOCAL -j REJECT
           PreDown  =  iptables -D OUTPUT ! -o %i -m mark ! --mark $(wg show %i fwmark) -m addrtype ! --dst-type
       LOCAL -j REJECT

       The `PostUp' and `PreDown' fields have been added to specify an iptables(8) command which, when used with
       interfaces that have a peer that specifies 0.0.0.0/0 as part of the `AllowedIPs', works together with wg-
       quick's fwmark usage in order to drop all packets that are either not coming out of the tunnel  encrypted
       or  not  going  through  the tunnel itself. (Note that this continues to allow most DHCP traffic through,
       since most DHCP clients make use of PF_PACKET sockets, which bypass Netfilter.)  When  IPv6  is  in  use,
       additional similar lines could be added using ip6tables(8).

       Or, perhaps it is desirable to store private keys in encrypted form, such as through use of pass(1):

           PostUp = wg set %i private-key <(pass WireGuard/private-keys/%i)

       For use on a server, the following is a more complicated example involving multiple peers:

           [Interface]
           Address = 10.192.122.1/24
           Address = 10.10.0.1/16
           SaveConfig = true
           PrivateKey = yAnz5TF+lXXJte14tji3zlMNq+hd2rYUIgJBgB3fBmk=
           ListenPort = 51820

           [Peer]
           PublicKey = xTIBA5rboUvnH4htodjb6e697QjLERt1NAB4mZqp8Dg=
           AllowedIPs = 10.192.122.3/32, 10.192.124.1/24

           [Peer]
           PublicKey = TrMvSoP4jYQlY6RIzBgbssQqY3vxI2Pi+y71lOWWXX0=
           AllowedIPs = 10.192.122.4/32, 192.168.0.0/16

           [Peer]
           PublicKey = gN65BkIKy1eCE9pP1wdc8ROUtkHLF2PfAqYdyYBz6EA=
           AllowedIPs = 10.10.10.230/32

       Notice  the  two  `Address' lines at the top, and that `SaveConfig' is set to `true', indicating that the
       configuration file should be saved on shutdown using the current status of the interface.

       A combination of the `Table', `PostUp', and `PreDown' fields may be used for policy routing as well.  For
       example, the following may be used to send SSH traffic (TCP port 22) traffic through the tunnel:

           [Interface]
           Address = 10.192.122.1/24
           PrivateKey = yAnz5TF+lXXJte14tji3zlMNq+hd2rYUIgJBgB3fBmk=
           ListenPort = 51820
           Table = 1234
           PostUp = ip rule add ipproto tcp dport 22 table 1234
           PreDown = ip rule delete ipproto tcp dport 22 table 1234

           [Peer]
           PublicKey = xTIBA5rboUvnH4htodjb6e697QjLERt1NAB4mZqp8Dg=
           AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0

       These  configuration  files  may  be  placed  in any directory, putting the desired interface name in the
       filename:

           # wg-quick up /path/to/wgnet0.conf

       For  convenience,  if  only  an  interface  name  is  supplied,  it  automatically  chooses  a  path   in
       `/etc/wireguard/':

           # wg-quick up wgnet0

       This will load the configuration file `/etc/wireguard/wgnet0.conf'.

       The strip command is useful for reloading configuration files without disrupting active sessions:

           # wg syncconf wgnet0 <(wg-quick strip wgnet0)

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