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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hi,

I would like to use Wireguard over TCP. I'm trying to reach my server from a restrictive network and UDP is being blocked. TCP is not blocked in certain ports though, and I would like to open a VPN server that listen on those over TCP.

I'm using the wireguard Linuxserver docker image. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wireguard only supports UDP. The main reason being TCP over TCP is extremely slow.

You could try OpenVPN, I think that has a TCP mode though, as said, don't expect good performance.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For my setup, I used UDP port 443. For the vast majority of situations it works well as TCP 443 is for secure internet traffic. It seems admins often blanket 443 port open regardless of protocol 🙃

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good news: it's possible! :) From Known Limitations on the Wireguard project site:

TCP Mode

WireGuard explicitly does not support tunneling over TCP, due to the classically terrible network performance of tunneling TCP-over-TCP. Rather, transforming WireGuard's UDP packets into TCP is the job of an upper layer of obfuscation (see previous point), and can be accomplished by projects like udptunnel and udp2raw.

Have a look into udptunnel and udp2raw and see how that works in your environment.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

As long as you're certain your wireguard server works from other networks.. You could use nginx as a proxy to have your server accept incoming traffic from UDP port 53 (DNS)... But, be careful!

I would strongly suggest you whitelist the retrictive network for use on UDP port 53. Is the WAN IP static on the restrictive network? Do you know the size of the WAN subnet? I'd try a quick test over UDP port 53 using nginx, then close it up. If it works, create your firewall rule to whitelist only the restrictive network and Bob's your aunt.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm 100% sure it works from other networks. UDP 123 is filtered by ISP. Someone mentioned some other low UDP port.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Try UDP port 123 sometimes that goes through the firewalls

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will try this port. Any other port that could work? (Not 53 as it's being filtered by ISP)

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