Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

Set Up WireGuard on Ubuntu Linux

Summary of Successful Path – path through the maze

  • wireguard   –  wireguard comes with Ubuntu installs already
  • Install resolvconf:  sudo apt install resolvconf
  • Installing the WireGuard Client App on Ubuntu   –  First install did not require.  Second install did this. 
  • Use Mulivad VPN site to generate a configuration ( .conf ) file
  • Place config file in /etc/wireguard   You will have to create /wireguard
  • File must have the .conf extension:  VpnFile.conf
  • Server is taken care of by the fact I'm using Mulivad
  • Use command   wg-quick up VpnFile    ( note: no .conf extension here! )
  • Test with WhatIsMyIP shows IP located in Chicago

 

Where to go next

Process Notes – the maze I started with

  • resolvconf – was not installed.  Errored out before Wireguard could run
  • At first IIRC – I got an error when I tried to use FullFileName.conf ( with extension – ( still do )
  • CONF file does not work without the .conf extention
  • Works:  wg-quick up wg0
  • Does not work:  wg-quick up wg0.conf
  • IIRC:  Part of the problem is that I was trying to test with my home wireguard server that now appears to be down

 

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Theory

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While watching this video I realized that while the configuration file must have the .conf extension you call refer to this file without the extension and I had been trying to test with my home server which had gotten jammed up and needs rebooting.

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Book – Other Losses – How Dwight Eisenhower Intentially Starved a Million German Soldiers to Death

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