Weron
Infrastructure
peer-to-peer vpn
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
7 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 2 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Embeddable transport for building P2P apps in Go
From 2 comments
Can this be used as a library like libp2p, or does it require me to run binaries?
13415 on HNThat's very cool! Thanks for answering my question so fast!
13415 on HN
Useful for networks that block VPNs
From 1 comment
Hey, I have been using Wireguard and Nebula to connect to my home network for a while now, but theyre blocked by my uni. I bypass the blocking using shadowsocks but its still a…
IceWreck on HN
Objections
Default Google STUN server raises privacy concerns
From 1 comment
Here is some initial feedback: Nice selection of static binaries! However the choice to hardcode Google as a default STUN server is off-putting. IMHO, 2008's n2n would never set…
1vuio0pswjnm7 on HN
Full mesh may not scale beyond about 100 peers
From 2 comments
> Is what makes this a "P2P" VPN [...] that it supports the group/"community" network behavior? More or less! Compared to say OpenVPN there is no central server that all traffic…
pojntfx on HNHi! n2n was a huge inspiration for the project, in fact I wrote Go bindings for n2n before starting it: https://github.com/pojntfx/gon2n Weron also allows tunneling - just…
pojntfx on HN
Requests
Mobile Android and iOS apps
From 1 comment
This looks nice. Do you have Android/iOS mobile apps on the roadmap?
depingus on HN
Docs with clearer setup instructions
From 2 comments
I somehow can't understand how to use it :) Sorry! But nice work.
mib32 on HNTLDR is very good idea, yes! Thanks!
mib32 on HN
Questions
Does it work behind NAT?
From 1 comment
Does this also work between two peers that are behind NAT's / routers? From what I vaguely remember when I tried playing around with this stuff, some NAT's / routers have some…
ackbar03 on HN
Could it tunnel WireGuard over WebRTC instead?
From 1 comment
Why wouldn't you just tunnel WireGuard over WebRTC? There's already a very, very good implementation of WireGuard --- one of the two major production implementations --- in Go.…
tptacek on HN
Alternatives named
n2n
From 2 comments
> Is what makes this a "P2P" VPN [...] that it supports the group/"community" network behavior? More or less! Compared to say OpenVPN there is no central server that all traffic…
pojntfx on HNNo one is raising the question of how to handle community name/key management for persistent communities. With n2n, which long predates Zerotier, Wireguard and Tailscale, one of…
1vuio0pswjnm7 on HN
Tailscale
From 1 comment
> Compared to for example Tailscale, WireGuard and ZeroTier, its much harder to block on a network level Tailscale at least bundles in an HTTPS fallback for those situations. I’m…
ianlevesque on HN
ZeroTier
From 1 comment
This looks pretty slick, and the WebRTC seems like it might offer some choices of traversal that would work where others don't. The inbuilt tools for "chat" (seems a useful…
linsomniac on HN
Netbird
From 1 comment
that is indeed a performance decrease. But the idea of this project is just great! There is another way of combining WebRTC and Wireguard. Netbird uses ICE protocol (used in…
braginini on HN