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firezone/rust/gateway
Thomas Eizinger 5ff8668ec6 fix(gateway): treat TUN device update errors as fatal (#7566)
In case we fail to update the TUN device with its IPs or set the routes,
we currently just log a warning and continue operation. That isn't
ideal, setting the correct IPs and routes is crucial for the Gateway to
operate correctly.

Additionally, the design of sending the `Interface` through a separately
spawned task is kind of clunky. Instead of having a channel, we
introduce another `FuturesSet` that allows us to process these `async`
tasks inline within the event loop.
2024-12-22 06:17:22 +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.