From 9dbb09756f358a5d15d1afb9f6d6fd268d85c25a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Froehlich Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:42:09 +0000 Subject: net/wireguard: Updating and fallback instructions for wireguard kernel support --- UPDATING | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPDATING') diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index ba258eb20802..0f0ca76243ad 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -5,6 +5,24 @@ they are unavoidable. You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20210322: + AFFECTS: users of net/wireguard + AUTHOR: decke@FreeBSD.org + + A wireguard kernel implementation supporting FreeBSD 12.1 and newer was + added as net/wireguard-kmod recently. + + The new default for users of net/wireguard is the kernel module where it + is supported and needs to be loaded at boot time from your /etc/rc.conf + or /etc/rc.conf.d/wireguard file: + + kld_list="/boot/modules/if_wg.ko" + + If you experience problems with it you can switch back to wireguard-go + easily by unloading (or not loading) the kernel module. The userland + tools wg-quick(8) and wg(8) try to use kernel support and otherwise fall + back to wireguard-go automatically. Config files are fully compatible. + 20210317: AFFECTS: users of security/strongswan AUTHOR: driesm.michiels@gmail.com -- cgit v1.2.3