In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
arstechnica.com
WireGuard probably won't make it into 13.0-RELEASE, but 13.1 seems very likely.

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 :)

  • UnreliantGiant@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    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

    • poVoq@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      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 ;)