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Thomas Eizinger c5c195f282 chore(eBPF): change error log-levels (#8805)
Neither of the moved error cases should happen very often so it is fine
to log them on debug.

- `Error::NotTurn` only happens if we receive a UDP packet that isn't
STUN traffic (port 3478) or not in the allocation-port range. I am
suspecting there to be a bug that I am aiming to fix in #8804.
- `Error::NotAChannelDataMessage` will happen for all STUN control
traffic, like channel bindings, allocation requests, etc. Those only
happen occasionally so won't spam too much.
- `Ipv4PacketWithOptions` should basically not happen at all because -
as far as I know - IPv4 options aren't used a lot.

In any case, when debugging, it is useful to see when we do hit these
cases to know, why a packet was offloaded to user space.
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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 release profile.
  2. sudo 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.