I have fully reproducible steps to demonstrate this issue on a vanilla DigitalOcean droplet, minimal WireGuard configuration and no firewall rules. I've also seen this issue on other hosting providers.
6. On both droplets, run `systemctl start wg-quick@test`
7. On test01, run `iperf3 -s -B XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX`
8. On test02, run `iperf3 -c XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -P 5 -t 30` and observe ~2Gbps.
9. On test01, run `iperf3 -s -B 192.168.200.10`
10. On test02, run `iperf3 -c 192.168.200.10 -P 5 -t 30`
I have fully reproducible steps to demonstrate this issue on a vanilla DigitalOcean droplet, minimal WireGuard configuration and no firewall rules. I've also seen this issue on other hosting providers.
Testing with `iperf3 -c XXX -P 5`:
- Unencrypted traffic on DigitalOcean's VPC = ~2Gbps
- WireGuard Ubuntu 18.04 = ~1.3Gbps
- WireGuard Ubuntu 20.04 = ~400Mbps
- WireGuard Ubuntu 22.04 = ~400Mbps
htop reported only 20-30% load on the vCPU core so it isn't CPU-bound.
After doing these tests, I did them all again on a different day to rule out temporary network congestion.
Steps to reproduce below. Repeat with each Ubuntu version.
0. Create a DigitalOcean account. FRONTEND= noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade -y && reboot`
1. Create two $6 droplets (eg, LON1 region) with Regular CPU & 1GB RAM each, called test01 & test02.
2. `apt-get update && DEBIAN_
3. `apt-get install -y wireguard iperf3`
4. On test01, create `/etc/wireguard /test.conf` with these contents. Replace `XXX` with the IP address of the eth1 interface (VPC) on test01.
------- ------- ------ YGQn5k7FqOXuZJ9 aC/6NDW569c3g=
[Interface]
PrivateKey = wOEa8/RS2v065wg
Address = 192.168.200.10/24
ListenPort = 51820
SaveConfig = false
[Peer] QMZjhG475GErrz9 5Vpj4S7JPEwzcDM V8= qDag2LunpVlFqKy cp/9CH+ Izjza5aq2cYss= ------- ------
PublicKey = wdXOzBptLD/
PresharedKey = j5Oeyhu/
Endpoint = XXX:51820
AllowedIPs = 192.168.200.20/32
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5. On test02, create `/etc/wireguard /test.conf` with these contents. Replace `YYY` with the IP address of the eth1 interface (VPC) on test02.
------- ------- ------ 9N5wUmgMF1Esqjc 051jQPGhrQIGw=
[Interface]
PrivateKey = kCJ/4rVDTy86HxP
Address = 192.168.200.20/24
ListenPort = 51820
SaveConfig = false
[Peer] y0BSRoMuxXYb4hK 18dsQdkZk20yQ= qDag2LunpVlFqKy cp/9CH+ Izjza5aq2cYss= ------- ------
PublicKey = s/GtXkHOtPsqcND
PresharedKey = j5Oeyhu/
Endpoint = YYY:51820
AllowedIPs = 192.168.200.10/32
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6. On both droplets, run `systemctl start wg-quick@test`
7. On test01, run `iperf3 -s -B XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX`
8. On test02, run `iperf3 -c XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -P 5 -t 30` and observe ~2Gbps.
9. On test01, run `iperf3 -s -B 192.168.200.10`
10. On test02, run `iperf3 -c 192.168.200.10 -P 5 -t 30`