Wireguard and Bonjour/Avahi
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So I'm finally got around to setting up a VPN to my home network so I can access files and thing on my LAN when I'm away from home. It works quite nicely actually, but I was under the impression all my LAN devices would show up in macOS Finder sidebar like they do at home.
I've setup Wireguard as per this https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/wireguard-ra.html and a lil help from Chat which suggested the same.
I also have Avahi package installed and working with "Repeat mdns packets across subnets" set.
But then I saw this here Re: Avahi mDNS on Wireguard
@cypherpunk AFAIK, the pfSense Wireguard implementation does not support multicast.
But it's still unclear to me.
So would I be correct then in assuming Bonjour will never work on this setup and I should switch the OpenVPN to get the experience I'm after? -
Question was probably a bit long winded.
Short version:Bonjour advertised network shares showing up in my Finder sidebar possible with a Wireguard VPN in pfsense or no?
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@TQKez said in Wireguard and Bonjour/Avahi:
Bonjour advertised network shares showing up in my Finder sidebar possible with a Wireguard VPN in pfsense or no?
No. Quoting the Wireguard doc linked in the other thread:
"If a routing protocol relies on broadcast or multicast traffic, it is unlikely to work."
Bonjour is a system based on mDNS (Multicast DNS).
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@dennypage Okay thanks.
