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WireGuard Tools

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WireGuard Tools — configure WireGuard interfaces with wg and wg-quick

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Stars
718
Primary language
C
License
GPL-2.0
Repository last updated
May 6, 2026

Overview

WireGuard Tools provides the `wg` userspace configuration utility and the `wg-quick` convenience script for bringing up WireGuard interfaces, with support across Linux, BSDs, macOS, Windows, and Android.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Configure WireGuard interfaces and peers directly with `wg`

Keys, peers, allowed IPs, endpoints, and related WireGuard settings can be inspected and changed from the command line.

Sources: [2][3]

Use `wg-quick` for common tunnel setup

A compact configuration file can bring up interfaces and routes, with optional systemd integration.

Sources: [2]

For lightweight WireGuard management or integration into network tooling

It fits direct CLI administration and serves as the core userspace tooling distributions and network managers can integrate with.

Sources: [2]

GitHub is a mirror, not the canonical upstream

The official source lives at git.zx2c4.com. Use the canonical repository when validating upstream releases, changes, and security status.

Sources: [1][2][3]

Official sources

  1. [1]WireGuard/wireguard-tools GitHub mirror(2026-09-21)
  2. [2]wireguard-tools README(2026-09-21)
  3. [3]Official wireguard-tools repository(2026-09-21)
  4. [4]wireguard-tools GPL-2.0 license(2026-09-21)
Supplemental curator note

Both the repository description and README identify GitHub as a mirror. The canonical repository is `git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools`, so source and release verification should not treat GitHub alone as the authoritative upstream.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd wireguard-tools
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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Stars
718
Forks
312
Watchers
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Open issues
0
Contributors
33
Primary language
C
License
GPL-2.0
Repository last updated
May 6, 2026
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