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firezone/rust/gateway
Gabi 5b0aaa6f81 fix(connlib): protect all sockets from routing loops (#5797)
Currently, only connlib's UDP sockets for sending and receiving STUN &
WireGuard traffic are protected from routing loops. This is was done via
the `Sockets::with_protect` function. Connlib has additional sockets
though:

- A TCP socket to the portal.
- UDP & TCP sockets for DNS resolution via hickory.

Both of these can incur routing loops on certain platforms which becomes
evident as we try to implement #2667.

To fix this, we generalise the idea of "protecting" a socket via a
`SocketFactory` abstraction. By allowing the different platforms to
provide a specialised `SocketFactory`, anything Linux-based can give
special treatment to the socket before handing it to connlib.

As an additional benefit, this allows us to remove the `Sockets`
abstraction from connlib's API again because we can now initialise it
internally via the provided `SocketFactory` for UDP sockets.

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Signed-off-by: Gabi <gabrielalejandro7@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Eizinger <thomas@eizinger.io>
2024-07-16 00:40:05 +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.