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UnlockedSecrets on March 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A userspace WireGuard client that exposes itself a...

Yes that is what they are, But what SFP actually has the ability to be programmable to the degree that is needed to support Wireguard??

mbreese on March 27, 2022 [–]

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/smart-sfp-linux-inside

This SFP has an embedded ARM processor running Linux. It’s pretty meta, but one could imagine a wireguard control network for these. The article even describes using wireguard-go on the embedded side.

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