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Right now, `snownet` de-multiplexes WireGuard packets based on their source tuple (IP + port) to the _first_ connection that would like to handle this traffic. What appears to be happening based on observation from customer logs is that we sometimes dispatch the traffic to the wrong connection. The WireGuard packet format uses session indices to declare, which session a packet is for. The local session index is selected during the handshake for a particular session. By associating the different session indices (we can have up to 8 in parallel per peer) with our Firezone-specific connection ID, we can change our de-multiplexing scheme to uses these indices instead of the source tuple. This is especially important for Gateways as those talk to multiple different clients. The session index is a 32-bit integer where the top 24 bits identify the connection and the bottom 8 bits are used in a round-robin fashion to identify individual sessions within the connection. Thus, to find the correct connection, we right-shift the session index of an incoming packet to arrive back at the 24-bit connection identifier. In environments with a limited number of ports outside the NAT, a connection from a new Client may come from a source tuple of a previous Client. In such a case, we'd dispatch the packets to the wrong connection, causing the Client to not be able to handshake a tunnel.