What's the purpose of the wg-quick firewall rules?

What's the purpose of the wg-quick firewall rules?

[Alexandru Scvortov]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand what the firewall rules that wg-quick adds do.

I see these rules being added:

```
table ip raw {
	chain PREROUTING {
		type filter hook prerouting priority raw; policy accept;
		iifname != "wg0" ip daddr 10.10.1.2 fib saddr type != local  counter drop
		iifname != "wg0" ip daddr 10.10.0.2 fib saddr type != local  counter drop
	}
}
table ip mangle {
	chain POSTROUTING {
		type filter hook postrouting priority mangle; policy accept;
		meta l4proto udp mark 0xca6c  counter ct mark set mark
	}

	chain PREROUTING {
		type filter hook prerouting priority mangle; policy accept;
		meta l4proto udp  counter meta mark set ct mark
	}
}
```

The `raw` rules seem fine, but I can't figure out what the `mangle` rules are for. They're added in `add_default`, so they have something to do with the "route all traffic through Wireguard" functionality, but removing them doesn't seem to break anything on my laptop.

I think the first iteration of these were added in commit ebcf1ef8b1ad in wireguard-tools, but the commit message is "wg-quick: linux: filter bogus injected packets and don't disable rpfilter", and that doesn't make it any clearer to me.

What breaks if these rules aren't present?

Thank you.

Cheers,
Alex