[Fixed] Weird Wireguard issues I could use some help with.
I've hit a wall with a weird Wireguard issue. I'm trying to connect my phone (over cell) to my home router using wireguard and it will not connect.
- The keys are all correct.
- The IPs are all correct.
- The ports are open on the firewall.
- My router has a public IP, no CGNAT.
The router is opnsense, I have a tcpdump session going and when I attempt a connection from the phone I see 0 packets on that port. I am able to ping the router and reach the web server sitting behind it from the phone.
I have a VPS that I configured WG on and the phone connects fine to that. I also tested configuring the VPS to connect to my home router and that also works fine.
I'm really at a loss as to where to go next.
Edit 2: I completely blew out the config on both sides and rebuilt it from scratch, using a different UDP port, and it all appears to be working now. Thanks for everyone's help in tracking this down.
Edit: It was requested I provide my configs.
opnsense:
####################################################
# Interface settings, not used by `wg` #
# Only used for reference and detection of changes #
# in the configuration #
####################################################
# Address = 172.31.254.1/24
# DNS =
# MTU =
# disableroutes = 0
# gateway =
[Interface]
PrivateKey =
ListenPort = 51821
[Peer]
# friendly_name = note20
PublicKey =
AllowedIPs = 172.31.254.100/32
Android:
[Interface]
Address = 172.31.254.100/32
PrivateKey =
[Peer]
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/32
Endpoint = :51821
PublicKey =
If your VPS can connect to your home router as a client it sounds like your wireguard server on opnsense is working correctly.
Might be a problem with your phones WG config. Have you tried taking the client .conf file from your VPS and loading it onto your phone to test a working config file?
I didn't think the wg-quick conf is compatible but I'll look into that in the am.
For the love of all that is holy
At least change the interface IP. I multiboot my laptop and when I copied a wg.conf being lazy, the server basically ignored the newer client. I had to boot back into the OG OS and add a peer via ssh. I'm still learning wg but don't count on clones interfaces working.
All I meant was, it hadn't occurred to me that the android app and wg-quick used the same file format. I can certainly give this a try.