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firezone/rust
Thomas Eizinger b7795dfa03 feat(snownet): introduce upsert_connection (#6937)
One of the key differences of the new control protocol designed in #6461
is that creating new connections is idempotent. We achieve this by
having the portal generate the ICE credentials and the preshared-key for
the WireGuard tunnel. As long as the ICE credentials don't change, we
don't need to make a new connection.

For `snownet`, this means we are deprecating the previous APIs for
making connections. The client-side APIs will have to stay around until
we merge the client-part of the new control protocol. The server-side
APIs will have to stay around until we remove backwards-compatibility
from the gateway.
2024-10-08 01:37:42 +00:00
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2024-09-09 19:47:16 +00:00

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.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the bench profile.
  2. sudo perf perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.