Files
firezone/rust
Thomas Eizinger 8809c0872e feat(snownet): only keep the best possible candidate pair alive (#3792)
This took me a while to figure out but I think the solution is quite
neat. We are using ICE trickle which means there could be new candidates
at any point in time. Thus, there really is never a good time to say
"ICE is finished" and clean-up all other candidates (that is what
non-trickle ICE would want you to do:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8445#section-8.3). But what we
can do is, upon each nomination, look at our local candidates and
invalidate all that are of the same priority or less.

For example, if we start with a connection via a relay, discard all
other relay candidates but keep the host and server-reflexive ones. If
the ICE agent then figures out a better path, it will give us a new
nomination and we can discard even more candidates.

On the other hand, if hole-punching fails, str0m will eventually give up
on certain candidate pairs because it is not receiving replies and
consider them failed.

Thus, the behaviour that we are getting with this PR is: Try all
possible candidate pairs but settle on the best possible one.

What is kind of neat is that, because we are still in ICE trickle mode,
receiving a new candidate could still upgrade existing relayed
connections to direct ones if the new candidate allows it.

The other side of this coin is that we won't have a fallback any more to
other pairs if the current one fails. In that case, we will consider the
entire connection failed, remove it and create a new one on the next
connection intent.

Resolves: #3789.
2024-02-28 16:37:16 +00:00
..
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.