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firezone/rust/gateway
Thomas Eizinger 3a8c6c7182 chore(connlib): assert that we don't emit WouldBlock errors (#7696)
When file descriptors like sockets or the TUN device are opened in
non-blocking mode, performing operations that would block emit the
`WouldBlock` IO error. These errors _should_ be translated into
`Poll::Pending` and have a waker registered that gets called whenever
the operation should be attempted again. Therefore, we should _never_
see these IO errors.

Previously, the implementation of the tunnel's event-loop did not yet
properly handle this backpressure and instead sometimes dropped packets
when it should have suspended. This has since been fixed but the then
introduced branch of just ignored the `io::ErrorKind::WouldBlock` errors
had remained.

Changing this to a debug-assert will alert us whenever we accidentally
break this without altering the behaviour of the release binary.
2025-01-08 14:11:01 +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.