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| vpn-wireguard [2025/09/29 18:44] – [Status] -Move description of first block of text above screenshot hogwild | vpn-wireguard [2025/11/11 00:07] (current) – [General Troubleshooting] -Change to "point of failure you find" hogwild | ||
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| - | **Poll Interval** - WireGuard's PersistentKeepalive setting. | + | **Poll Interval** - a watchdog timer for the WireGuard |
| - | This determines how often clients behind NAT send keepalive packets to maintain NAT mappings. | + | If we can't ping 1.1.1.1 via the WireGuard interface, wg is restarted.\\ |
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| * The recommended setting is 25 seconds. This causes WireGuard \\ to send a small packet to its peer every 25 seconds when no \\ other traffic occurs. This keeps the connection alive through \\ NAT or firewalls that might otherwise close idle UDP sessions. \\ \\ | * The recommended setting is 25 seconds. This causes WireGuard \\ to send a small packet to its peer every 25 seconds when no \\ other traffic occurs. This keeps the connection alive through \\ NAT or firewalls that might otherwise close idle UDP sessions. \\ \\ | ||
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| If a link is up, the handshake done and the tunnel established, | If a link is up, the handshake done and the tunnel established, | ||
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| For example, for this WireGuard instance: | For example, for this WireGuard instance: | ||
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| The first block of text includes this router' | The first block of text includes this router' | ||
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| - Public key | - Public key | ||
| - UDP listening port | - UDP listening port | ||
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| - | The first block of text includes this router' | ||
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| - | - WireGuard Interface name | ||
| - | - Interface' | ||
| - | - Public key | ||
| - | - UDP listening port | ||
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| The second block of text displays the Peer' | The second block of text displays the Peer' | ||
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| * Remote LAN IP | * Remote LAN IP | ||
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