Yes, traffic is routed to the gateway through a WireGuard tunnel. Broadly speaking, what happens is:
- Client and gateway perform ICE to agree on a socket pair (this is where hole-punching happens or if that fails, a relay is used)
- The socket pair determined by ICE is used to set up a WireGuard tunnel (i.e. a noise handshake using ephemeral keys).
- IP traffic is read from the TUN device and sent via the WireGuard tunnel to the gateway.
- Gateway decrypts it and emits it as a packet from its TUN device, thereby forwarding it to the actual destination.
It is worth noting that a WireGuard tunnel in this case is "just" the Noise Protocol [0] layered on top of UDP. This ensures the traffic is end-to-end encrypted.
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Does the actual traffic goes through the gateway or the gateway is only used for setting up the connection?
Yes, traffic is routed to the gateway through a WireGuard tunnel. Broadly speaking, what happens is:
- Client and gateway perform ICE to agree on a socket pair (this is where hole-punching happens or if that fails, a relay is used)
- The socket pair determined by ICE is used to set up a WireGuard tunnel (i.e. a noise handshake using ephemeral keys).
- IP traffic is read from the TUN device and sent via the WireGuard tunnel to the gateway.
- Gateway decrypts it and emits it as a packet from its TUN device, thereby forwarding it to the actual destination.
It is worth noting that a WireGuard tunnel in this case is "just" the Noise Protocol [0] layered on top of UDP. This ensures the traffic is end-to-end encrypted.
[0]: https://noiseprotocol.org