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Thomas Eizinger 1dc6b46344 fix(connlib): regression seed failure (#7558)
In #7477, we introduced a regression in our test suite for DNS queries
that are forwarded through the tunnel.

In order to be deterministic when users configure overlapping CIDR
resources, we use the sort order of all CIDR resource IDs to pick, which
one "wins". To make sure existing connections are not interrupted, this
rule does not apply when we already have a connection to a gateway for a
resource. In other words, if a new CIDR resource (e.g. resource `A`) is
added to connlib that has an overlapping route with another resource
(e.g. resource `B`) but we already have a connection to resource `B`, we
will continue routing traffic for this CIDR range to resource `B`,
despite `A` sorting "before" `B`.

The regression that we introduced was that we did not account for
resources being "connected" after forwarding a query through the tunnel
to it. As a result, in the found failure case, the test suite was
expecting to route the packet to resource `A` because it did not know
that we are connected to resource `B` at the time of processing the ICMP
packet.
2024-12-20 09:59:58 +00:00
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2023-05-10 07:58:32 -07:00

Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.