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Thomas Eizinger 2a46fce574 refactor(connlib): remove Result return values from callbacks (#4158)
Currently, an error returned by `Tunnel::poll_next_event` is only
logged. In other words, they are never fatal. This creates a tricky to
understand relationship on what kind of errors should be returned from
callbacks. Because connlib is used on multiple operating systems, it has
no idea how fatal a particular error is.

This PR removes all of these `Result` return values with the following
consequences:

- For Android, we now panic when a callback fails. This is a slight
change in behaviour. I believe that previously, any exception thrown by
a callback into Android was caught and returned as an error. Now, we
panic because in the FFI layer, we don't have any information on how
fatal the error is. For non-fatal errors, the Android app should simply
not throw an exception. The panics will cause the connlib task to be
shut down which triggers an `on_disconnect`.
- For Swift, there is no behaviour change. The FFI layer already did not
support `Result`s for those callbacks. I don't know how exceptions from
Swift are translated across the FFI layer but there is no change to what
we had before.
- For the Tauri client:
- I chose to log errors on ERROR level and continue gracefully for the
DNS resolvers.
- We panic in case the controller channel is full / closed. That should
really never happen in practice though unless we are currently shutting
down the app.

Resolves: #4064.
2024-03-20 02:09:20 +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.