Technical requirements and installation

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Technical requirements

• Operating systems: Debian 11+ (amd64), Ubuntu 20+ (amd64) 
• Real, public IP address on server interface
• Domain name for the server
• PUQVPNCP
• Installed packages wireguard wireguard-dkms wireguard-tools (Included in the installation process)

Installation

We issue all comments after logging into the SSH terminal window as the root user.

Linux kernels less than 5.6 (<=5.5) did not include Wireguard as a feature in the upstream kernel code. Adding Wireguard support to these (older) kernels is possible via additional modules

Check kernel version

uname -sr

Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
reboot

For Debian 10:  WireGuard is in Debian backported repo. Hence, enable backports as follows, run:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list"
sudo apt update

 

apt-get install wireguard wireguard-dkms wireguard-tools -y

Checking installed packages

Checking the wireguard status

dpkg -s wireguard

Output should looks similar to this:

Package: wireguard
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 17
Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.0.20210223-1
Depends: wireguard-modules (>= 0.0.20191219) | wireguard-dkms (>= 0.0.20200121-2), wireguard-tools (>= 1.0.20210223-1)
Description: fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (metapackage)
 WireGuard is a novel VPN that runs inside the Linux Kernel and uses
 state-of-the-art cryptography (the "Noise" protocol). It aims to be
 faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding
 the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant
 than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for
 running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for
 many different circumstances. It runs over UDP.
 .
 This metapackage explicitly depends on both the kernel module and the
 userspace tooling.
Homepage: https://www.wireguard.com

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Checking installed packages

Checking the wireguard-dkms

dpkg -s wireguard-dkms

Output should looks similar to this:

Package: wireguard-dkms
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: kernel
Installed-Size: 1724
Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Source: wireguard-linux-compat
Version: 1.0.20210219-1
Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0), perl:any
Recommends: wireguard (>= 0.0.20191219), wireguard-tools (>= 0.0.20191219)
Description: fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (DKMS version)
 WireGuard is a novel VPN that runs inside the Linux Kernel and uses
 state-of-the-art cryptography (the "Noise" protocol). It aims to be
 faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding
 the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant
 than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for
 running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for
 many different circumstances. It runs over UDP.
 .
 This package uses DKMS to automatically build the wireguard kernel
 module.
Homepage: https://www.wireguard.com

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Checking installed packages

Checking the wireguard-tools

dpkg -s wireguard-tools

Output should looks similar to this:

Package: wireguard-tools
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 319
Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Source: wireguard
Version: 1.0.20210223-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Recommends: nftables | iptables, wireguard-modules (>= 0.0.20171001) | wireguard-dkms (>= 0.0.20191219)
Suggests: openresolv | resolvconf
Description: fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (userland utilities)
 WireGuard is a novel VPN that runs inside the Linux Kernel and uses
 state-of-the-art cryptography (the "Noise" protocol). It aims to be
 faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding
 the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant
 than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for
 running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for
 many different circumstances. It runs over UDP.
 .
 This package contains command-line tools to interact with the
 WireGuard kernel module.  Currently, it provides only a single tool:
 .
 wg: set and retrieve configuration of WireGuard interfaces
Homepage: https://www.wireguard.com

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