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      bjc
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      Getting that error when attempting to set up a tunnel. the listen port is automatically populated with 51820, so I'm not sure why it's resulting in an error.

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        tirsojrp @bjc
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        @bjc are you leaving the field empty?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Just fill it as 51820 for now. That confused me at first too.
          I think we have a patch incoming for that.

          Steve

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            bjc @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 Ahhh, now I see it. I just assumed it was populated for me the whole time...didn't realize I needed to type over the pre-populated suggestion.

            @tirsojrp Thanks for the hint!

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Yeah, it should use the default there. It will in the next snapshot.

              Steve

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                tobira
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                Is there any way to listen with Wireguard on a non-standard port at all? With this error, I am unable to have it listen on anything but the normal ports.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  It can listen on any port you choose, just set it in the WireGuard interface config.

                  If you do that you obviously have to set any peers to use that new port.

                  What issue are you seeing?

                  Steve

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                    tobira @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 When I attempt to set my Wireguard tunnel to listen on port 443 for example I get this message:

                    "The following input errors were detected:
                    Invalid interface listen port."

                    I have also confirmed that 443 is not in-use on the PFSense server:
                    : netstat -an | grep 443
                    tcp6 0 0 *.8443 . LISTEN
                    tcp4 0 0 *.8443 . LISTEN
                    [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT]

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Hmm, could be restricted to high numbered ports only (>1023). Not sure I've tested that...

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by stephenw10

                        Nope has to be >511 currently:
                        https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/web/wg.inc#L103

                        That looks like input validation only though so you could probbably edit the config if you really wanted a port <512. Or edit the validation on that file.

                        Steve

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                          tobira @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 since there isn’t a technical reason to not allow it, can the port restriction be removed? There is no such restriction on the OpenVPN server ports.

                          Having to make manual config changes or changing the code to allow lower ports seem like issues in the future when the system is upgraded.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            It was clearly coded that way for a reason. I'm digging internally.....

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                              tobira @stephenw10
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                              @stephenw10 Thanks! I appreciate it.

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/94230d38349cfc3e76be3239833168f8835df07f

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                                  serbus
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                                  Hmmm...

                                  Firefox_Screenshot_2021-01-26T00-43-23.772Z.png

                                  Lex parsimoniae

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Well that doesn't look right! πŸ˜‰

                                    What did you do to see that?

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                                      serbus
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                                      Hello!

                                      I am testing on :

                                      2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
                                      built on Mon Jan 25 09:13:15 EST 2021
                                      FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE

                                      Using Firefox 84.0.1 (64-bit)

                                      I dont see any form field validation happening and the code in wg_validate_post and wg_validate_peer will let you enter just about anything you want.

                                      I made a redmine issue with some stopgap code that might help. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11311

                                      John

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