interfaces-wireguard-quick(5)

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💅 interfaces-wireguard-quick(5) — File Formats Manual, section 5

okay so bestie, welcome to the glow-up era of your networking stack ✨ this page is all about wg-quick and how it plugs into the interfaces(5) file format. it lives in section 5, the File Formats Manual — very reference-material, very "keep me open in another tab" energy 🎀

🌈 NAME

interfaces-wireguard-quick — the wg-quick extensions for the interfaces(5) file format, iykyk 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so first thing: Wireguard is a contemporary in-Kernel layer 3 VPN protocol implementation 💜 and its whole entire brand is providing fast and secure tunnels. like, that's the vibe check and it passes, no cap 🔥

then there's the wireguard-quick executor — that's the little main character that lets you set up Wireguard VPN tunnels using wg-quick 😌 it's giving "effortless", it's giving "you don't have to hand-write the tunnel yourself" 👑

and the configuration file that wg-quick uses is named:

/etc/wireguard/interface.conf

yes literally that path, character for character, write it down bestie 📝

✨ EXAMPLES

here's a Wireguard VPN tunnel all configured with wg-quick — look at her go 🌸

           auto wg-foo
           iface wg-foo
                   use wireguard-quick

that's the whole thing. auto-start her, declare the iface, and hit her with use wireguard-quick — slay, iconic, done 💅

👑 AUTHORS

Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org> — thank her, she ate 🍓🫶

and that's the page!! 💖 this was interfaces-wireguard-quick(5), dated 2026-05-10, file formats manual, section 5 — go forth and tunnel responsibly, mwah 🧚⭐

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