I have an off-grid Linux box that hosts a local Wi-Fi network and some communication and entertainment apps. I want to host a chat service for asynchronous off-grid comms. Briar looked like the perfect option if I could just add the mail-box to my Linux box.
Simplex looks like it might do something similar, but it doesn't look like it does comms over direct Bluetooth.
I thought it was something like that. What I really want to see is an open-source version of Briar.
I assumed you'd have to interface with Google to get messages to/from other RCS users using their app, but does that not happen via a bridge-server?
Here's an example of what I use across multiple networks, with roaming and static devices. They all use a common /24 subnet (that doesn't overlap with any of the common LAN subnets), and each gets it's one /32 address in that subnet. That way each one accepts traffic from any other WG clients in the same subnet as local traffic to the host device. Essentially each PC, server, or phone thinks it's on the same local network as every other WG client.
[Interface]
PrivateKey = XXX
ListenPort = 51820
Address = 10.172.43.11/24
### Every client gets an address in the 10.172.43.x network
[Peer]
PublicKey = XXXX
AllowedIPs = 10.172.43.15/32
### This device is a roaming phone or laptop, so it will be able to talk to the server when it wants to, but must initiate all traffic.
[Peer]
PublicKey = XXXX
AllowedIPs = 10.172.43.11/32, 192.168.1.0/24
#### This device is a router which is configured to NAT any traffic from WG to the LAN, so any WG device can talk to the LAN as if it's local
Endpoint = my.dynamic.dns.addres:51820
#### Use dynamic dns for any device that has a semi-permanent public IP and hosts ANY amount of content, files, or needs to be accessible to SSH
WireGuard is **WAY ** faster than any other VPN I've tested, and much more flexible. But at the cost of a little extra setup.
If you want to PM me your
docker-compose.ymlandCaddyfileI'm more than happy to take a look at them for you. I've been using Caddy as my rev-proxy for 10+ app stacks for a few years now.