Mint22 Wireguard

[Edmund]

Mint22 Wireguard

New virtual install and I found something about wireguard under network
but I cannot "select" a network device and copying the same as under
"Normal network" does not connect

Anyone has it on a real install and found the wireguard option?

[Mike Easter]

Post by Edmund
Mint22 Wireguard
New virtual install and I found something about wireguard under network
but I cannot "select" a network device and copying the same as under
"Normal network" does not connect
Anyone has it on a real install and found the wireguard option?

I've used wireguard; I don't currently have it setup on your identical
situation.

wg is a protocol for VPN. I've used wg w/ the free Proton VPN. wg
appears in a menu in the network connections of NM as a connection type
option to create.

In the case of Proton VPN, they have instructions for setting up a linux
vpn connxn using either openvpn or wg, and I've done both.

That is a 'sensible' approach to preparing to use a vpn w/ wg.

There are other ways to enable wg capabilities if you don't yet have a
'sensible plan' for using wg. Is that what you want to do? Or are you
just 'wondering' why wireguard should appear in any part of the NM?

[Mike Easter]

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Edmund
Mint22 Wireguard
I found something about wireguard under network

wg is a protocol for VPN.
There are other ways to enable wg capabilities if you don't yet have
a 'sensible plan' for using wg. Is that what you want to do? Or are
you just 'wondering' why wireguard should appear in any part of the
NM?

Proton has a very educational page to teach you how to understand WHAT
wg is:

https://protonvpn.com/blog/what-is-wireguard/

Post by Mike Easter
Published on March 31, 2023
WireGuard® is a new VPN protocol used to secure the connection
between your device and a VPN server.

[Edmund]

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Edmund
Mint22 Wireguard
I found something about wireguard under network

wg is a protocol for VPN.
There are other ways to enable wg capabilities if you don't yet have
a 'sensible plan' for using wg.  Is that what you want to do?  Or are
you just 'wondering' why wireguard should appear in any part of the
NM?

Proton has a very educational page to teach you how to understand WHAT
https://protonvpn.com/blog/what-is-wireguard/

Post by Mike Easter
Published on March 31, 2023
WireGuard® is a new VPN protocol used to secure the connection
between your device and a VPN server.

As I told before, I have my own wireguard server and just ask if Mint 22
has a build-in client tool. thats it.
I see something with wireguard and can fill out the login data but I am
missing the "network device" since my install is virtual and the
network magic is new to me.
So IF ( not very likely ) someone have wireguard working AND uses the
build-in client we could compare and see what is missing here.

[Mike Easter]

Post by Edmund
As I told before,

I have no idea what you have told before; I read A msg for its content;
I don't keep a running dossier on everything Edmund has ever said. If
you can't make sense in your individual msg w/o references to something
you said at some unknown time in the past, there is going to be
confusion. If you want to reference a previous msg you've posted, one
way to do it is to use its M-ID at Howard Knight's site and post a link
to that item.

Post by Edmund
I have my own wireguard server and just ask if Mint 22
has a build-in client tool. thats it.

No; that is not what the initial msg in this thread actually said.

Post by Edmund
I see something with wireguard and can fill out the login data but I am
missing the "network device" since my install is virtual and the network
magic is new to me.
So IF ( not very likely ) someone  have wireguard working AND uses the
build-in client we could compare and see what is missing here.

If I were going to setup a wireguard server, I would install the
wireguard-tools and the wireguard packages which are not installed in a
default live LM, nor would I expect them to be in the equivalent VM. I
would also consider getting the 'wireguird' GUI manager.

[Mike Easter]

I would install the wireguard-tools and the wireguard packages which are
not installed in a default live LM, nor would I expect them to be in the
equivalent VM.  I would also consider getting the 'wireguird' GUI manager.

I did this and did NOT use the Proton linux app at the site, but only
used Proton's function to create a .conf file for wg. Then I used the
GUI wireguird to install the .conf and connected via the vpn. I
followed that by using icanhazip to see my WAN IP and used geoiplookup
to confirm the country I had chosen.

That is about being a GUI wg client, not a server.

And, then the GUI NM in notification can be used to connect and
disconnect from the wg server/s

[Edmund]

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Edmund
As I told before,

I have no idea what you have told before; I read A msg for its content;
I don't keep a running dossier on everything Edmund has ever said.  If
you can't make sense in your individual msg w/o references to something
you said at some unknown time in the past, there is going to be
confusion.  If you want to reference a previous msg you've posted, one
way to do it is to use its M-ID at Howard Knight's site and post a link
to that item.

Post by Edmund
I have my own wireguard server and just ask if Mint 22 has a build-in
client tool. thats it.

No; that is not what the initial msg in this thread actually said.

Post by Edmund
I see something with wireguard and can fill out the login data but I
am missing the "network device" since my install is virtual and the
network magic is new to me.
So IF ( not very likely ) someone  have wireguard working AND uses the
build-in client we could compare and see what is missing here.

If I were going to setup a wireguard server, I would install the
wireguard-tools and the wireguard packages which are not installed in a
default live LM, nor would I expect them to be in the equivalent VM.  I
would also consider getting the 'wireguird' GUI manager.

What wireguard GUI manager?

[Mike Easter]

Post by Edmund
What wireguard GUI manager?

WIREGUIRD

In LM 22 Cinn, I used this Ub .deb
v1.1.0 tested on: Ubuntu 23.04

https://github.com/UnnoTed/wireguird/releases

Readme & vid here:

https://github.com/UnnoTed/wireguird?tab=readme-ov-file

Post by Edmund
System tray icon goes red when connected, black when disconnected.
Looks the same and does almost the same things as the official Wireguard's Windows gui client.
Lists tunnels from /etc/wireguard
Controls Wireguard through wg-quick

Some search engines refuse to search for "wireguird" unless 'forced'.

[Edmund]

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Edmund
What wireguard GUI manager?

WIREGUIRD
In LM 22 Cinn, I used this Ub .deb
v1.1.0 tested on: Ubuntu 23.04
https://github.com/UnnoTed/wireguird/releases
https://github.com/UnnoTed/wireguird?tab=readme-ov-file

Post by Edmund
System tray icon goes red when connected, black when disconnected.
Looks the same and does almost the same things as the official
Wireguard's Windows gui client.
Lists tunnels from /etc/wireguard
Controls Wireguard through wg-quick

Some search engines refuse to search for "wireguird" unless 'forced'.

I do not see any GUI for wireguard Client.

The menu with "clients" I already have.

[Mike Easter]

Post by Edmund
I do not see any GUI for wireguard Client.

Well, I've seen wireguird in action. I consider it to function as a GUI
for wg.

I've also seen other GUI clients such as proton's.

The page w/ the vid I referenced earlier shows the activation and
deactivation of 2 of a long list of mulvad VPNs (called tunnels in the
vid) in the wireguird GUI.

I don't know how to interpret your 'I do not see' when you have had a
chance to watch a short vid of a GUI in action.

[Edmund]

Post by Edmund
I do not see any GUI for wireguard Client.

Well, I've seen wireguird in action.  I consider it to function as a GUI
for wg.

You missed the "CLIENT" part

I've also seen other GUI clients such as proton's.

I don't care, I don't have proton.

The page w/ the vid I referenced earlier shows the activation and
deactivation of 2 of a long list of mulvad VPNs (called tunnels in the
vid) in the wireguird GUI.

Yes I have that too.

I don't know how to interpret your 'I do not see' when you have had a
chance to watch a short vid of a GUI in action.

You an snip away parts of my text so that it fits you but I talked about
a GUI for the client so that I can activate the wireguard on that
client, like "wg UP/Down"
just like in every OS but linux.
That is not what is showed in your links.

[Mike Easter]

Post by Edmund
That is not what is showed in your links.

Yes, it is.

[Mike Easter]

Post by Edmund

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Edmund
I do not see any GUI for wireguard Client.

Well, I've seen wireguird in action. I consider it to function as
a GUI for wg.

You missed the "CLIENT" part

I can't figure out if you don't know what a *client* is in this context
or if there is some other problem w/ your cognition.

Post by Edmund

Post by Mike Easter
I've also seen other GUI clients such as proton's.

I don't care, I don't have proton.

The concept is to have a wireguard client to connect w/ a VPN server
using the wireguard protocol.

Post by Edmund

Post by Mike Easter
The page w/ the vid I referenced earlier shows the activation and
deactivation of 2 of a long list of mulvad VPNs (called tunnels in
the vid) in the wireguird GUI.

Yes I have that too.

I don't know whether 'have that too' refers to the vid or if you have
mulvad VPN.

Post by Edmund

Post by Mike Easter
I don't know how to interpret your 'I do not see' when you have had
a chance to watch a short vid of a GUI in action.

You an snip away parts of my text so that it fits you but I talked
about a GUI for the client so that I can activate the wireguard on
that client, like "wg UP/Down" just like in every OS but linux. That
is not what is showed in your links.

That is *exactly* what I have illustrated to you. Wireguird is a
wireguard client which acts like the wireguard client in windows, as I
have previously pasted.

Post by Edmund
System tray icon goes red when connected, black when disconnected.
Looks the same and does almost the same things as the official Wireguard's Windows gui client.
Lists tunnels from /etc/wireguard
Controls Wireguard through wg-quick

What is your problem?

Post by Edmund
A WireGuard client is an app on a device that connects to a VPN server using the WireGuard VPN protocol

[Arti F. Idiot]

Post by Edmund
Mint22 Wireguard
New virtual install and I found something about wireguard under network
but I cannot "select" a network device and copying the same as under
"Normal network" does not connect
Anyone has it on a real install and found the wireguard option?

The only time I see a wireguard option in NetworkManager is *after*
running something like

$ sudo wg-quick up wg0

or

$ systemctl start wg-***@wg0

If you flesh out the "wireguard" connection in NetworkManager well
enough you *may* be able to toggle it on/off without further command
line actions. I think on a Debian+Gnome system I ended up installing
something extra so wireguard could be managed solely through
NetworkManager; IIRC Proton has something on their website outlining the
steps. One thing I found frustrating is trying to get systemd-resolved
to keep /etc/resolv.conf updated the way the openresolv package did; the
latter was removed from the Ubuntu package repository due to conflicts.
You can still make use of wireguard without it but DNS will be done by
whatever your default provider uses.

[Edmund]

Post by Arti F. Idiot

Post by Edmund
Mint22 Wireguard
New virtual install and I found something about wireguard under network
but I cannot "select" a network device and copying the same as under
"Normal network" does not connect
Anyone has it on a real install and found the wireguard option?

The only time I see a wireguard option in NetworkManager is *after*
running something like
 $ sudo wg-quick up wg0
or
If you flesh out the "wireguard" connection in NetworkManager well
enough you *may* be able to toggle it on/off without further command
line actions.  I think on a Debian+Gnome system I ended up installing
something extra so wireguard could be managed solely through
NetworkManager; IIRC Proton has something on their website outlining the
steps.  One thing I found frustrating is trying to get systemd-resolved
to keep /etc/resolv.conf updated the way the openresolv package did; the
latter was removed from the Ubuntu package repository due to conflicts.
You can still make use of wireguard without it but DNS will be done by
whatever your default provider uses.

Never mind I just made a launcher to start it or close it.