wireguard road warrior setup docs problem

[opnsense-user123]

I could not get opnsense to act as my wireguard vpn host/server by following the official docs.

At some point I was just trying anything I could think of, and it's possible that I had not restarted the service after changing something else. But, the last thing I changed that made it work was to specifically add the port for the endpoint.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/wireguard-client.html says, about configuring the endpoint(s):

Endpoint Port  (empty)  Not required for inbound connections - dynamic

I put the default port (51820) I was using in there and it started working. Before that I could get the connection to come up from a remote endpoint but no traffic would pass.

Again, perhaps I'm wrong and it was something else I initially set wrong then fixed and had not restarted the service yet.

[Maurice]

An endpoint port is definitely not required if the endpoint initiates the connection. If this didn't work, the reason most likely was something else.

Cheers

Maurice

[Greelan]

100% agree with Maurice’s comment. I have multiple road warrior endpoints set up, all working without a port specified in the OPNsense endpoint config