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Currently, an error returned by `Tunnel::poll_next_event` is only logged. In other words, they are never fatal. This creates a tricky to understand relationship on what kind of errors should be returned from callbacks. Because connlib is used on multiple operating systems, it has no idea how fatal a particular error is. This PR removes all of these `Result` return values with the following consequences: - For Android, we now panic when a callback fails. This is a slight change in behaviour. I believe that previously, any exception thrown by a callback into Android was caught and returned as an error. Now, we panic because in the FFI layer, we don't have any information on how fatal the error is. For non-fatal errors, the Android app should simply not throw an exception. The panics will cause the connlib task to be shut down which triggers an `on_disconnect`. - For Swift, there is no behaviour change. The FFI layer already did not support `Result`s for those callbacks. I don't know how exceptions from Swift are translated across the FFI layer but there is no change to what we had before. - For the Tauri client: - I chose to log errors on ERROR level and continue gracefully for the DNS resolvers. - We panic in case the controller channel is full / closed. That should really never happen in practice though unless we are currently shutting down the app. Resolves: #4064.
gateway
This crate houses the Firezone gateway.
Building
You can build the gateway using: cargo build --release --bin firezone-gateway
You should then find a binary in target/release/firezone-gateway.
Running
The Firezone Gateway supports Linux only. To run the Gateway binary on your Linux host:
- Generate a new Gateway token from the "Gateways" section of the admin portal and save it in your secrets manager.
- Ensure the
FIREZONE_TOKEN=<gateway_token>environment variable is set securely in your Gateway's shell environment. The Gateway requires this variable at startup. - Set
FIREZONE_IDto a unique string to identify this gateway in the portal, e.g.export FIREZONE_ID=$(uuidgen). The Gateway requires this variable at startup. - Now, you can start the Gateway with:
firezone-gateway
If you're running as a non-root user, you'll need the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability
to open /dev/net/tun. You can add this to the gateway binary with:
sudo setcap 'cap_net_admin+eip' /path/to/firezone-gateway
Ports
The gateway requires no open ports. Connections automatically traverse NAT with STUN/TURN via the relay.