esp_wireguard, WireGuard Implementation for ESP-IDF

This is an implementation of the WireGuard® for ESP-IDF, based on WireGuard Implementation for lwIP.

Status

The code is alpha.

A single tunnel to a WireGuard peer has been working.

Supported ESP-IDF versions and targets

The following ESP-IDF versions are supported:

• esp-idf master
• esp-idf v4.2.x
• esp-idf v4.3.x
• esp-idf v4.4.x
• ESP8266 RTOS SDK v3.4

The following targets are supported:

• esp32
• esp32s2
• esp32c3
• esp8266

Usage

In menuconfig under WireGuard, choose a TCP/IP adapter. The default is ESP-NETIF. SDKs older than esp-idf v4.1, including ESP8266 RTOS SDK v3.4 requires TCP/IP Adapter.

Both peers must have synced time. The library does not sync time.

A working network interface is required.

Create WireGuard configuration, wireguard_config_t. Use ESP_WIREGUARD_CONFIG_DEFAULT to initialize wireguard_config_t variable. Create wireguard_ctx_t. Pass the variables to esp_wireguard_init(). Then, call esp_wireguard_connect(). Call esp_wireguard_disconnect() to disconnect from the peer (and destroy the WireGuard interface).

#include <esp_wireguard.h>

esp_err_t err = ESP_FAIL;

wireguard_config_t wg_config = ESP_WIREGUARD_CONFIG_DEFAULT();

wg_config.private_key = CONFIG_WG_PRIVATE_KEY;
wg_config.listen_port = CONFIG_WG_LOCAL_PORT;
wg_config.public_key = CONFIG_WG_PEER_PUBLIC_KEY;
wg_config.allowed_ip = CONFIG_WG_LOCAL_IP_ADDRESS;
wg_config.allowed_ip_mask = CONFIG_WG_LOCAL_IP_NETMASK;
wg_config.endpoint = CONFIG_WG_PEER_ADDRESS;
wg_config.port = CONFIG_WG_PEER_PORT;

/* If the device is behind NAT or stateful firewall, set persistent_keepalive.
   persistent_keepalive is disabled by default */
// wg_config.persistent_keepalive = 10;

wireguard_ctx_t ctx = {0};
err = esp_wireguard_init(&wg_config, &ctx);

/* start establishing the link. after this call, esp_wireguard start
   establishing connection. */
err = esp_wireguard_connect(&ctx);

/* after some time, see if the link is up. note that it takes some time to
   establish the link */
err = esp_wireguardif_peer_is_up(&ctx);
if (err == ESP_OK) {
    /* the link is up */
else {
    /* the link is not up */
}

/* do something */

err = esp_wireguard_disconnect(&ctx);

See examples at examples.

IPv6 support

Enable CONFIG_LWIP_IPV6 under lwip component in menuconfig.

IPv6 support is alpha and probably broken. See also Known issues.

Known issues

The implementation uses LwIP as TCP/IP protocol stack.

IPv6 support is not tested. Dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) is not supported (see Issue #5). The first address of endpoint is used to choose IPv4 or IPv6 as a transport. The chosen transport must be available and usable.

The library assumes the interface is WiFi interface. Ethernet is not supported.

Older esp-idf versions with TCP/IP Adapter, such as v4.1.x, should work, but there are others issues, not directly related to the library.

License

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (SPDX ID: BSD-3-Clause). See LICENSE for details.

Authors

• Daniel Hope ([email protected])
• Kenta Ida ([email protected])