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The WebSocket connection to the portal from within the Clients, Gateways and Relays may be temporarily interrupted by IO errors. In such cases we simply reconnect to it. This isn't as much of a problem for Clients and Gateways. For Relays however, a disconnect can be disruptive for customers because the portal will send `relays_presence` events to all Clients and Gateways. Any relayed connection will therefore be interrupted. See #8177. Relays run on our own infrastructure and we want to be notified if their connection flaps. In order to differentiate between these scenarios, we remove the logging from within `phoenix-channel` and report these connection hiccups one layer up. This allows Clients and Gateways to log them on DEBUG whereas the Relay can log them on WARN. Related: #8177 Related: #7004
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:
- Generate a new Gateway token from the "Gateways" section of the admin portal and save it in your secrets manager.
- Ensure the
FIREZONE_TOKEN=<gateway_token>environment variable is set securely in your Gateway's shell environment. The Gateway requires this variable at startup. - Set
FIREZONE_IDto a unique string to identify this gateway in the portal, e.g.export FIREZONE_ID=$(uuidgen). The Gateway requires this variable at startup. - 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.