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vpn-wireguard [2025/09/29 18:45] – [Status] -Delete orig. (now dupe) "first block of text" paragraph hogwildvpn-wireguard [2025/11/19 20:30] (current) – [Problem: Traffic flowing in one Direction] -Change to: " hogwild
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 Note that tabs or other interface components in your menus may be different colours, depending on which web interface theme is chosen in the Admin Access menu. Note that tabs or other interface components in your menus may be different colours, depending on which web interface theme is chosen in the Admin Access menu.
  
-This HOWTO: [[wireguard_on_freshtomato|Set up WireGuard]] includes an introduction to WireGuard and some basic theory.+For an introduction to WireGuard, and some basic theory, the [[wireguard_on_freshtomato|Set up WireGuard]] HOWTO may be helpful.
  
 Unless using an external VPN provider, it's best to "nominate" a main router that will produce configuration files. Clients, such as other FreshTomato routers and other devices should import the configuration generated by the main router. Certain configuration changes may require you to delete and reimport the configuration on those client devices. Unless using an external VPN provider, it's best to "nominate" a main router that will produce configuration files. Clients, such as other FreshTomato routers and other devices should import the configuration generated by the main router. Certain configuration changes may require you to delete and reimport the configuration on those client devices.
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-**Poll Interval** - WireGuard's PersistentKeepalive setting.+**Poll Interval** - a watchdog timer for the WireGuard connection (in minutes)
  
-This determines how often clients behind NAT send keepalive packets to maintain NAT mappings. +This causes FreshTomato to ping 1.1.1.1 via the WireGuard interface. If no reply is received in time, the wg service 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. \\ \\  +
-  * Default: 0. This disables the feature, so packets are sent only\\ as needed. This is fine for most users not behind restrictive NAT.+
  
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- \\  The point of failure found will provide critical insight into the type of issue you are facing.+ \\  The point of failure you find will guide you in understanding what type of issue you are facing.
  
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 +==== Problem: Traffic flowing in only one Direction ====
  
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 +Sometimes, it may occur that from one end of your setup ("A)", you can ping devices and both VPN virtual interfaces at the other end ("B"), however, from end B, you cannot ping the remote router or devices or the client VPN virtual interface at end A.
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 +It this occurs, please check that there are default routes setup from B to A. Also, please check that on the client side, (in this case, end B), the "Inbound firewall" option is disabled. On the server side, make sure to add the client's subnet, so it knows how to route traffic from the server back to the client.
  
  
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