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+title: Wireguard routing part one
+description: The basics to know about wireguard routing
+date: 2023-02-21
+tage:
+- vpn
+- wireguard
+---
+
+## Introduction
+
+Now that we learned how to configure wireguard on multiple operating systems, let's take a break and review what running wireguard does to your routing table.
+
+## Wireguard routing basics
+
+The most important thing to understand is that you do not configure routes with wireguard: the `AllowedIPs` you configure for a peer become your routes!
+
+This has several consequences:
+- These routes are always in your routing table, even when the peer is unreachable.
+- If you accept traffic from a range of IPs through wireguard, all traffic towards this range will go through wireguard too.
+
+This is what you want most of the time, but it is cumbersome if you ever:
+- want to redirect all your internet traffic through wireguard.
+- would like to have redundancy to reach a distant host through more than one wireguard peer.
+- want to route all traffic destined to the internet.
+
+## The simplest setup
+
+Let's consider the two hosts and two networks in the following schematic:
+
+![Simplest setup](/static/wireguard-routing-1.drawio.svg)
+
+The first network is physical and connects the eth0 interfaces of the two hosts on `192.168.1.0/24`. The second network is virtual and virtually connects the wg0 wireguard interfaces of the two hosts on `10.1.2.0/24`.
+
+The first host is named Dalinar and has a single physical network interface eth0 with ip address `192.168.1.10/24`. We will configure wireguard with ip address `10.1.2.1/24`, wireguard private key `kIrQqJA1kEX56J9IbF8crSZOEZQLIAywjyoOqmjzjHU=` and public key `zfxxxWIMFYbEoX55mXO0gMuHk26iybehNR9tv3ZwJSg=`.
+
+The second host is named Kaladin and has a single physical network interface eth0 with ip address `192.168.1.20/24`. We will configure wireguard with ip address `10.1.2.2/24`, wireguard private key `SIg6cOoTyJRGIYSZ9ACRryL182yufKAtTLHK/Chb+lo=` and public key `BN89Ckhy4TEHjy37zz/Mvi6cOksnKzHHrnHXx5YkMlg=`.
+
+## Wireguard configurations
+
+Dalinar's wireguard configuration looks like:
+```cfg
+[Interface]
+PrivateKey = kIrQqJA1kEX56J9IbF8crSZOEZQLIAywjyoOqmjzjHU=
+ListenPort = 342
+Address = 10.1.2.1/32
+
+[Peer]
+PublicKey = BN89Ckhy4TEHjy37zz/Mvi6cOksnKzHHrnHXx5YkMlg=
+Endpoint = 192.168.1.20:342
+AllowedIPs = 10.1.2.2/32
+```
+
+Kaladin's wireguard configuration looks like:
+```cfg
+[Interface]
+PrivateKey = SIg6cOoTyJRGIYSZ9ACRryL182yufKAtTLHK/Chb+lo=
+ListenPort = 342
+Address = 10.1.2.2/32
+
+[Peer]
+PublicKey = zfxxxWIMFYbEoX55mXO0gMuHk26iybehNR9tv3ZwJSg=
+Endpoint = 192.168.1.10:342
+AllowedIPs = 10.1.2.1/32
+```
+
+## Important things to note
+
+Look carefully at the netmask in the `Address` and `AllowedIPs`: I did not use `/24` anywhere! I did this because:
+- wireguard does not need it.
+- it would become confusing with many peers.
+- we should try and keep the cleanest routing tables possible.
+
+I could have used a `/24` netmask for the `Address` field, this would work and look natural as this is how all networking devices usually work. I do not because I do not want the OS to have a `/24` route to the wg0 interface without a next hop, I will need it when we introduce a distant host to our configuration in the next article.
+
+I could have put one for the AllowedIPs though, but this would only work in this particular case. As soon as you add more than one peer the configuration would break.
+
+A key takeaway is this: Even though with other vpn solutions (or traditional networking) we are used to have hosts logically sharing a network like `10.1.2.0/24` in our case, this is absolutely not a wireguard requirement. We could have used `10.1.2.1` for Dalinar's wg0 and `172.16.0.1` for Kaladin's wg0 and besides changing these IPs the configuration would be exactly the same and work directly. Let that sink in!
+
+## Routing tables
+
+With this setup if Dalinar was a Linux, its routing table would looks like this with `ip -4 r`:
+```
+10.1.2.2 dev wg0 scope link
+192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.10 metric 600
+```
+
+Kaladin's would look very similar:
+```
+10.1.2.1 dev wg0 scope link
+192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.20 metric 600
+```
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