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Thomas Eizinger 0de16d3676 refactor(connlib): remove async from the Device API (#2815)
At present, the definition of `Device` is heavily nested with
conditional code. I've found this hard to understand and navigate.
Recent refactorings now made it possible to remove a lot of these layers
so we primarily deal with two concepts:

- A `Device` which offers async read and non-blocking write functions
- A `Tun` abstraction which is platform-specific

Instead of dedicated modules, I chose to feature-flag individual
functions on `Device` with `#[cfg(target_family = "unix")]` and
`#[cfg(target_family = "windows")]`. I find this easier to understand
because the code is right next to each other.

In addition, changing the module hierarchy of `Device` allows us to
remove `async` from the public API which is only introduced by the use
of `rtnetlink` in Linux. Instead of making functions across all `Tun`
implementations `async`, we embed a "worker" within the `linux::Tun`
implementation that gets polled before `poll_read`.

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Co-authored-by: Gabi <gabrielalejandro7@gmail.com>
2023-12-12 19:47:26 +00:00
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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:

  1. Generate a new Gateway token from the "Gateways" section of the admin portal and save it in your secrets manager.
  2. Ensure the FIREZONE_TOKEN=<gateway_token> environment variable is set securely in your Gateway's shell environment. The Gateway requires this variable at startup.
  3. Set FIREZONE_ID to a unique string to identify this gateway in the portal, e.g. export FIREZONE_ID=$(uuidgen). The Gateway requires this variable at startup.
  4. 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.