wireplug
Keeps your WireGuard VPN connection alive when you move between wifi networks and your phone's mobile connection — it quietly finds the new address and reconnects your devices, without you running a coordination server yourself.
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Description
WireGuard itself is a rock-solid, fast VPN protocol — but out of the box, it doesn't handle roaming well: change networks and your peer's address is stale until you manually update it. Tools like Tailscale solve this by wrapping WireGuard in a full managed platform with accounts and a control plane. wireplug takes a narrower, more minimalist approach: it's a small coordination layer that automatically detects when a WireGuard peer's network address changes and updates the connection, using NAT traversal techniques (UPnP, NAT-PMP, PCP, and relay fallback) to keep peers reachable even behind restrictive routers.
By default it uses wireplug.org's own free coordination service, so there's no account to create and no server to deploy — but because it's open-source, you can also self-host the coordinator entirely if you'd rather not depend on a third party at all. It also detects when two peers are on the same local network and connects them directly, skipping the internet round-trip.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you already use plain WireGuard and just want roaming to work without signing up for a managed VPN platform, wireplug is a free, no-account way to get that — as long as you're comfortable running early-stage, unaudited software.
Compared to Tailscale (the dominant managed WireGuard-based mesh VPN) or Nebula (Slack's self-hosted mesh overlay), wireplug's appeal is being deliberately minimal: no account, no vendor lock-in, and self-hostable if you want zero third-party dependency at all. The real tradeoff is maturity — the project explicitly flags itself as experimental with no independent security audit yet, which matters more for a VPN/security tool than almost any other category. It's a reasonable fit for individuals and small teams comfortable with early-stage tooling; teams needing an audited, support-backed product should stick with Tailscale for now.
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Gratuit, sans compte · consulting/formation payants disponibles en option
Pros
Aucun compte requis, service de coordination gratuit par défaut
Auto-hébergeable pour zéro dépendance tierce (open-source)
Multiples méthodes de traversée NAT (UPnP, NAT-PMP, PCP, relais)
Détection de pairs sur le même réseau local, connexion directe
Cons
Projet expérimental jeune, sans audit de sécurité indépendant
Moins mature qu'une solution managée comme Tailscale
Nécessite de gérer WireGuard soi-même en amont