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teiferer on Aug 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN a...

The user-facing software is not included in the kernel, but you need that to configure wireguard.

jchook on Aug 29, 2025 [–]

Is that true? I thought wg-quick etc were just convenience functions and that it's relatively trivial to use iproute2 to configure a VPN link

immibis on Aug 30, 2025 | [–]

You don't need wg-quick. You do need the "wg" command.

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