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firezone/rust/gui-client
Thomas Eizinger 4e11112d9b feat(connlib): improve throughput on higher latencies (#10231)
Turns out the multi-threaded access of the TUN device on the Gateway
causes packet reordering which makes the TCP congestion controller
throttle the connection. Additionally, the default TX queue length of a
TUN device on Linux is only 500 packets.

With just a single thread and an increased TX queue length, we get a
throughput performance of just over 1 GBit/s for a 20ms link between
Client and Gateway with basically no packet drops:

```
Connecting to host 172.20.0.110, port 5201
[  5] local 100.79.130.70 port 49546 connected to 172.20.0.110 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   116 MBytes   977 Mbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   137 MBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   134 MBytes  1.13 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   136 MBytes  1.14 Gbits/sec   47   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   137 MBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   138 MBytes  1.16 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   138 MBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   138 MBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   138 MBytes  1.16 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   138 MBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  10.00-11.00  sec   139 MBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  11.00-12.00  sec   139 MBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  12.00-13.00  sec   136 MBytes  1.14 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  13.00-14.00  sec   139 MBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  14.00-15.00  sec   140 MBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  15.00-16.00  sec   138 MBytes  1.16 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  16.00-17.00  sec   137 MBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  17.00-18.00  sec   139 MBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  18.00-19.00  sec   138 MBytes  1.16 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
[  5]  19.00-20.00  sec   136 MBytes  1.14 Gbits/sec    0   6.40 MBytes       
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec  2.67 GBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec   47             sender
[  5]   0.00-20.02  sec  2.67 GBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

```

For further debugging in the future, we are now recording the send and
receive queue depths of both the TUN device and the UDP sockets. Neither
of those showed to be full in my testing which leads me to conclude that
it isn't any buffer inside Firezone that is too small here.

Related: #7452

---------

Signed-off-by: Thomas Eizinger <thomas@eizinger.io>
2025-08-20 23:08:56 +00:00
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gui-client

This crate houses a GUI client for Linux and Windows.

Setup (Ubuntu)

To compile natively for x86_64 Linux:

  1. Install rustup
  2. Install pnpm
  3. sudo apt-get install build-essential curl file libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev libssl-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libxdo-dev wget

Setup (Windows)

To compile natively for x86_64 Windows:

  1. Install rustup
  2. Install pnpm

(From Tauri's default README)

Building

Builds are best started from the frontend tool pnpm. This ensures typescript and css is compiled properly before bundling the application.

See the package.json script for more details as to what's going on under the hood.

# Builds a release exe
pnpm build

# Linux:
# The release exe and deb package are up in the workspace.
stat ../target/release/firezone
stat ../target/release/bundle/deb/*.deb

# Windows:
# The release exe and MSI installer should be up in the workspace.
# The exe can run without being installed
stat ../target/release/Firezone.exe
stat ../target/release/bundle/msi/Firezone_0.0.0_x64_en-US.msi

Signing the Windows MSI in GitHub CI

The MSI is signed in GitHub CI using the firezone/firezone repository's secrets. This was originally set up using these guides for inspiration:

Renewing / issuing a new code signing certificate and associated Azure entities is outside the scope of this section. Use the guides above if this needs to be done.

Instead, you'll most likely simply need to rotate the Azure CodeSigning Application's client secret.

To do so, login to the Azure portal using your @firezoneprod.onmicrosoft.com account. Try to access it via the following deep-link. If that doesn't work:

  • Go to the Microsoft Entra ID service
  • Click on App Registrations
  • Make sure the tab All applications is selected
  • Find and navigate to the CodeSigning app registration
  • Client on client credentials
  • Click New client secret
  • Note down the secret value. This should be entered into the GitHub repository's secrets as AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET.

Running

From this dir:

# This will start the frontend tools in watch mode and then run `tauri dev`
pnpm dev

# You can call debug subcommands on the exe from this directory too
# e.g. this is equivalent to `cargo run -- debug hostname`
cargo tauri dev -- -- debug hostname

# The exe is up in the workspace
stat ../target/debug/Firezone.exe

The app's config and logs will be stored at C:\Users\$USER\AppData\Local\dev.firezone.client.

Platform support

Ubuntu 22.04 and newer is supported.

Tauri says it should work on Windows 10, Version 1803 and up. Older versions may work if you manually install WebView2

x86_64 architecture is supported for Windows. aarch64 and x86_64 are supported for Linux.

Threat model

See Security

Testing

See Intended behavior