WireGuard on a Mac
Modern, fast VPN; host your own, or the mesh base layer · VPN
WireGuard is the lean, high-performance VPN protocol underneath most modern meshes (Tailscale, NetBird, Netmaker). Install wireguard-tools with Homebrew for wg/wg-quick: host your own server (generate keys with wg genkey, write wg0.conf, wg-quick up wg0, forward UDP 51820 on the router; each laptop/phone gets a QR-able peer config), or build point-to-point/hub-and-spoke tunnels by hand. The overlay tools automate key exchange and NAT traversal on top of it; for a simple web UI use wg-easy. Pair with the Locations feature: an "On VPN" location keeps monitoring sane while tunneled home.
Run WireGuard with FrontierStack
Install or connect WireGuard; then check its status, ports and certificate from FrontierStack. The same screen links to firewall checks, Malware Audit and backups where they apply.
Run it from your Mac.
FrontierStack installs, monitors and secures services on this Mac and on linked servers.
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