The protocol bursts onto the scene a while back as the great hope for secure communications/VPNs, better that ANYTHING that has come before... And only runs on a VERY few OSes, with almost no review other than the designer.
A somewhat testy sponsor of of VPN/firewall appliances get's tired of waiting for the protocol to appear and hastily commissions an implementation of the protocol for a platform of their choosing that has NO SUPPORT from the designer. Said implementation is arguably "not good" (and it's
I'm fairly convinced that someone could come up with a weird twist on an existing protocol and with some coordination tout it as the latest and greatest elite protocol and suddenly every basement warrior would have to be running it because its obviously better than everything else ever, and by god they have 1 Gbps fiber at home and look at the speeds they get on their VPNs or whatever.
I use OpenVPN regularly and have never felt like it was a huge performance bottleneck, but to watch the chatter on Reddit in/r/pfsense or/r/homelab, you'd think that VPNs were only marginally useful and that without Wireguard you might as well go back to UUCP over modems.
Maybe I'm truly missing the boat on this and Wireguard really is all that, but it feels like just another on-trend technology meant to boost speeds and feeds for people who are focused on speeds and feeds to the exclusion of most everything else.
Don't get me wrong, it's always exciting to see some kind of new and better, but these days it seems like half the value is just being the kid on the block with the latest shit. Call me back when its stable and usable, I have something else to do with my time than spend a ton of time fucking around for marginal improvements.
Lets see... (Score:5, Interesting)
The protocol bursts onto the scene a while back as the great hope for secure communications/VPNs, better that ANYTHING that has come before... And only runs on a VERY few OSes, with almost no review other than the designer.
A somewhat testy sponsor of of VPN/firewall appliances get's tired of waiting for the protocol to appear and hastily commissions an implementation of the protocol for a platform of their choosing that has NO SUPPORT from the designer. Said implementation is arguably "not good" (and it's
Re:Lets see... (Score:2)
I'm fairly convinced that someone could come up with a weird twist on an existing protocol and with some coordination tout it as the latest and greatest elite protocol and suddenly every basement warrior would have to be running it because its obviously better than everything else ever, and by god they have 1 Gbps fiber at home and look at the speeds they get on their VPNs or whatever.
I use OpenVPN regularly and have never felt like it was a huge performance bottleneck, but to watch the chatter on Reddit in /r/pfsense or /r/homelab, you'd think that VPNs were only marginally useful and that without Wireguard you might as well go back to UUCP over modems.
Maybe I'm truly missing the boat on this and Wireguard really is all that, but it feels like just another on-trend technology meant to boost speeds and feeds for people who are focused on speeds and feeds to the exclusion of most everything else.
Don't get me wrong, it's always exciting to see some kind of new and better, but these days it seems like half the value is just being the kid on the block with the latest shit. Call me back when its stable and usable, I have something else to do with my time than spend a ton of time fucking around for marginal improvements.