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firezone/rust/gateway
Thomas Eizinger 35017537c7 feat(gateway): allow out-of-order allow_access requests (#6403)
Currently, the gateway requires a strict ordering of first receiving a
`request_connection` message, following by multiple `allow_access`
messages. Additionally, access can be granted as part of the initial
`request_connection` message too.

This isn't an ideal design. Setting up a new connection is infallible,
all we need to do is send our ICE credentials back to the client.
However, untangling that will require a bit more effort.

Starting with #6335, following this strict order on the client is a more
difficult. Whilst we can send them in order, it is harder to maintain
those ordering guarantees across all our systems.

To avoid this, we change the gateway to perform an upsert for its local
ACLs for a client. In case that an `allow_access` call would somehow get
to the gateway earlier, we can simply already create the `Peer` and only
set up the actual connection later.

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Signed-off-by: Jamil <jamilbk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jamil <jamilbk@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-08-28 13:10:06 +00:00
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2024-08-27 22:19:26 -07:00

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.