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firezone/rust/gateway
Thomas Eizinger 315d99f723 feat(gateway): allow tunneling packets to and from TUN device (#8283)
At present, Clients are only allowed to send packets to resources
accessible via the Gateway but not to the Gateway itself. Thus, any
application (including Firezone itself) that opens a listening socket on
the TUN device will never receive any traffic.

This has opens up interesting features like hosting additional services
on the machine that the Gateway is running on. Concretely, in order to
implement #8221, we will run a DNS server on port 53 of the TUN device
as part of the Gateway.

The diff for this ended up being a bit larger because we are introducing
an `IpConfig` abstraction so we don't have to track 4 IP addresses as
separate fields within `ClientOnGateway`; the connection-specific state
on a Gateway. This is where we allow / deny traffic from a Client. To
allow traffic for this particular Gateway, we need to know our own TUN
IP configuration within the component.
2025-02-27 23:49:05 +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.