RADIUSdesk Wireguard Agent

• The RADIUSdesk Wireguard Agent is a lightweight add-on to Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi devices that serves as a broker between Wireguard and RADIUSdesk.
• It uses a couple of Lua based libraries and scripts to fulfill its mandate.

• Make sure the iptables package is installed. (It was not installed on my Raspberry Pi OS image)

sudo apt-get install iptables

• Make sure packet forwarding for IPv4 is enabled.
• Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf.
• Find and uncomment net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 line.
• Apply all sysctl settings (recommended)

sudo sysctl -p

• Make sure the Wireguard package is installed.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install wireguard

• Install the following packages.

sudo apt-get install -y curl lua-socket lua-cjson luarocks
sudo luarocks install inifile

• Check out the latest RADIUSdesk code

cd /var/www
sudo git clone https://github.com/RADIUSdesk/rdcore.git
#Link the wireguard agent's files to /etc directory.
#(btw the accel-ppp folder is correct and part of the history of the project)
sudo ln -s /var/www/rdcore/cake4/rd_cake/setup/accel-ppp/MESHdesk /etc/MESHdesk

• Copy the following files:

#config file for the agent
sudo cp /etc/MESHdesk/files/wireguard-rd.conf /etc/
#Smart Queue Management (SQM) and throttling scrip
sudo cp /etc/MESHdesk/files/cake-wg.sh /usr/local/sbin/
#Startup files
sudo cp /etc/MESHdesk/files/rd-wireguard-init.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo cp /etc/MESHdesk/files/rd-wireguard-heartbeat.service /etc/systemd/system/

• Configuration is done by tweaking the /etc/wireguard-rd.conf file.
• Refer to the sample below.

[internet]
disabled=0
dns=cloud.radiusdesk.com
url=cake4/rd_cake/nodes/get-config-for-node.json
status_url=cake4/rd_cake/node-reports/submit_report.json
actions_url=cake4/rd_cake/node-actions/get_actions_for.json
protocol=https
http_port=80
https_port=443
ip=164.160.89.129
interface=eth0
 
[wireguard]
interface=eth0

• In our setup we have a RADIUSdesk server which has a FQDN of cloud.radiusdesk.com
• We also specify the fallback ip as 164.160.89.129 in the event when DNS does not resolve.
• Protocol can be either https or http. We choose https which is more secure.
• We also specify the interface we want the Wireguard service to run on.
• In our case we have a VPS with an Enternet port (eth0) where we will run Wireguard on.
• If you run Wireguard on the same server as RADIUSdesk, you can specify localhost for dns and 127.0.0.1 for ip.
• The agent will then fetch the MAC Address of this interface and forward the request for config to RADIUSdesk using this MAC Address as the unique identifier.
• Make changes to this file so that it works with your environment and device.

• We have two Systemd startup files which we copied to the /etc/systemd/system folder earlier.
• Disable the original Wireguard startup file.

sudo systemctl disable wireguard

• Enable everything

systemctl daemon-reload
 
systemctl enable rd-wireguard-init
systemctl enable rd-wireguard-heartbeat
 
systemctl start rd-wireguard-init
systemctl start rd-wireguard-heartbeat

• Check if everything started up fine

journalctl -u rd-wireguard-init -f
journalctl -u rd-wireguard-heartbeat -f

• Everything should now be in place and you can reboot the device and see if it is listed under Wireguard Servers → New Arrivals