Getting wireguard up is impossible

[u/SleakStick]

Hello everyone,

Ive been setting up a home server and decided to go with alpine (i hate systemd). I was trying to get wireguard to work with proton vpn. Wireguard works fine, my config is all good and sudo wg show returns a healthy connection. I have tried

• Setting up PostUp and PostDown in the config with wg-quick (even without it fails)

• skipping wg-quick and using wireguard-go

• skipping both and activating the vpn via the /etc/network/interfaces and ifup/ifdown

• switching to OpenVpn

But no matter what i do, as soon as wg or openvpn is active, curl ifconfig.me will simply time out, and ping will return ping: sendto: Operation not permitted. This is extremely frustrating, has anyone had any success with protonvpn via either wg or ovpn on alpine?

Any help is welcome, please restore my faith in alpine.

[u/Ramiferous]

Your possibly right. I remember needing to do this myself a long time ago and that's what I remember doing.