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firezone/rust
Jamil 5e0ca45c67 fix(relay): XDP_PASS non-STUN UDP traffic (#10292)
To prevent userspace relaying, all traffic that seemingly looked like
STUN/TURN but we couldn't handle via the eBPF codepath we would
`XDP_DROP`.

This turned out to be too heavy-handed of an approach since it end up
matching DNS query responses as well due to them arriving within the
TURN ephemeral port range.

To fix this, we `XDP_PASS` the traffic up the stack so that the kernel
is able to match it to existing conntrack entries.

We've identified a minor race condition where the first few channel data
packets might be dropped when a channel is first being bound, but fixing
this will be saved for a later PR.

Related: https://github.com/firezone/infra/pull/132
2025-09-05 13:24:02 -07:00
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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.