Asus router running (wireguard) VPN with policy rules

[SandLake]

I have been using a Torguard VPN on my gnuton1 Asus DSL-AC68U (I use the firmware for the RT-AC68U) for a while now, the VPN is configured via OpenVPN. I use 'policy rules' to specify which internal IP's route via the VPN and this works well. If I wasn't able to follow guides I could never have gotten this setup at all, I am past my own understanding of networking, but it works and I leave it well enough alone.

I have read that Wireguard is a much more efficient way to implement a VPN (I guess than OpenVPN) but have no idea what I need to do to 'upgrade' to Wireguard?

Can anyone help me get started on an upgrade path - even if that is to leave it alone?

Thanks

 

[RMerlin]

You can't. Wireguard requires a newer Linux kernel.

 

[SandLake]

Thanks for that, I have been doing some research today into this (and this is entirely TIC), one avenue I tried was asking a Tech Support line (I'll let them remain nameless for now) and their response was "there is a Merlin beta out just now that does support WG if your willing to install that"!

 

[Jeffrey Young]

You will still need a router with a much newer kernel than the 68U has. To the best of my knowledge, you are looking at the AC86U or AX88U (Vr. 4.x kernels). The 68U is only a Vr. 2.x

 

[wizin]

I get tremendous speeds with Wireguard, can it implemented in AC86U?

 

[Jeffrey Young]

You can check out this;

[Experimental] WireGuard for HND platform (4.1.x kernels)

1. Install WireGuard You need Entware-aarch64-3.10 to use wireguard without a new firmware build. ㅡ Kernel Module ㅡ RT-AC86U, GT-AC2900 - 4.1.27 https://github.com/odkrys/entware-makefile-for-merlin/raw/main/wireguard-kernel_1.0.20210219-k27_1_aarch64-3.10.ipk opkg install...

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[heysoundude]

I get tremendous speeds with Wireguard, can it implemented in AC86U?

(How I envy your BCTel/AGT fibre speeds here in Onterrible...)

see here:

Beta - Asuswrt-Merlin 386.1 Beta is now available

Dear all, I just updated to beta2 for my AC86U but I have some problems: 1. Login via ssh is not possible. Putty gives: Network error: connection refused. No way to access 2. Systemlogfiles gives that error: Dec 21 14:45:00 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks...

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that takes you to two threads. I'd suggest reading and considering the 2nd one first