As part of maintaining an allocation, we also perform STUN with our relays to discover our server-reflexive address. At the moment, these candidates are scoped to an `Allocation`. This is unnecessarily restrictive. Similar to host candidates, server-reflexive candidate entirely depend on the socket you send data from and are thus independent of the allocation's state. During normal operation, this doesn't really matter because all relay traffic is sent through the same sockets so all `Allocation`s end up with the same server-reflexive candidates. Where this does matter is when we disconnect from relay's for one reason or another (for example: #7162). The fact that all but host-candidates are scoped to `Allocation`s means that without `Allocation`s, we cannot make any new connections, not even direct ones. This is unnecessarily restrictive and causes bugs within `Allocation` to have a bigger blast radius than necessary. With this PR, we keep server-reflexive candidates in the same set as host candidates. This allows us to at least establish direct connections in case something is wrong with the relays or our state tracking of relays on the client side.
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:
- Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the
benchprofile. sudo perf perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).- Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
sudo perf script > profile.perf- 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.