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Very nice. I use OPNsense on an PC-Engines APU4 and are super happy with it. But I never quite managed to get Wireguard to work with it. Maybe this will help :)
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So there was quite a lot of drama around this story. Not going into detail, but both the userland and the in-kernel implementation have been dropped from FreeBSD13. They will both undergo serious review and then come back as a port when they have been audited.
Wish it was built in Android kernel too so it would consume less battery
Would this affect battery consumption though? The Wireguard protocol basically does not send/receive anything (when persistent keepalive is disabled, which it is by default) unless your phone actually wants to send something, and with Androids VPN API I think it mostly is as power efficient as it can be. As far as I understand having it in the Kernel only really provides performance (speed) gains, and maybe tighter integration into the overall Android ecosystem
Speed gains means at equal bandwidth less CPU use, hence more power efficient. How much of an impact that has in real-world scenarios, no idea ;)
You raise a good point. I’m actually not sure.
Hmm, it might be on newer versions? Not sure, but in general it is build into the Linux kernel these days. I think the main problem is that most Android devices ship with outdated kernel versions.
