This change allows a server running with `tun.disabled: true` (usually
a lighthouse) to still reply to ICMP EchoRequest packets. This allows
you to "ping" the lighthouse Nebula IP as a quick check to make sure the
tunnel is up, even when running with tun.disabled.
This is still gated by allowing `icmp` packets in the inbound firewall
rules.
This change is for Linux only.
Previously, when running with multiple tun.routines, we would only have one file descriptor. This change instead sets IFF_MULTI_QUEUE and opens a file descriptor for each routine. This allows us to process with multiple threads while preventing out of order packet reception issues.
To attempt to distribute the flows across the queues, we try to write to the tun/UDP queue that corresponds with the one we read from. So if we read a packet from tun queue "2", we will write the outgoing encrypted packet to UDP queue "2". Because of the nature of how multi queue works with flows, a given host tunnel will be sticky to a given routine (so if you try to performance benchmark by only using one tunnel between two hosts, you are only going to be using a max of one thread for each direction).
Because this system works much better when we can correlate flows between the tun and udp routines, we are deprecating the undocumented "tun.routines" and "listen.routines" parameters and introducing a new "routines" parameter that sets the value for both. If you use the old undocumented parameters, the max of the values will be used and a warning logged.
Co-authored-by: Nate Brown <nbrown.us@gmail.com>
This commit adds support for Nebula to be started without creating
a tun device. A node started in this mode still has a full "control
plane", but no effective "data plane". Its use is suited to a
lighthouse that has no need to partake in the mesh VPN.
Consequently, creation of the tun device is the only reason nebula
neesd to be started with elevated privileged, so this example
lighthouse can also be run as a non-root user.
Wade Simmons