Two local CI runs on one host both asked docker for 172.20.0.0/24 and the
second lost its whole static family to "Pool overlaps". Docker honours a
fixed subnet request verbatim, so the only robust fix is to stop making one:
fips-net now requests no subnet and docker assigns from its own pool, which
cannot hand the same range to two runs.
That means node addresses are not known before `up`, so peers address each
other by container hostname instead. The generator emits node-<id>, or the
topology's docker_host where the compose hostname differs — only the gateway
profile, whose services are gw-*. External peers keep the address the
topology gives them, since it is not ours to assign. The resolv.conf mount
stays: dnsmasq is what forwards these names to docker's resolver and .fips
to the daemon, so removing it would take out every .fips assertion.
generated-configs is now per-run as well. A shared directory let two runs
overwrite each other's node configs, which the subnet collision had been
hiding by killing runs before that window opened. The generator, the compose
bind mounts and env_file, the six scripts that read it, and teardown all
follow FIPS_CI_NAME_SUFFIX; unset, every path renders as before. Teardown
keeps the directory after a failed run, where it is the evidence of what the
failing nodes were configured with.
Three things this exposed that were wrong independently:
admission-cap built its tcpdump patterns from the topology file's docker_ip
literals. Floating the subnet makes those match nothing, which would have
left its expect-zero "no Msg2 leaked" assertion passing because it could no
longer see anything at all. It now reads addresses from the running
containers. Restarting the denied peers together also made them swap
addresses, so each peer's counts were really the pair's total; they are
restarted one at a time now, and a check fails the suite outright if two
denied peers ever share an address, because per-peer attribution is
impossible once they do.
Attribute lookups in the generator used a fixed ten-line window and read the
next node's fields when a node omitted an attribute. An external node
followed by an internal one was classified as internal, which under hostname
peering would emit a name that resolves nowhere. Lookups are bounded to the
node's own block; generated output is byte-identical for all eight
topologies.
The rekey outbound-only variant used to rewrite peer addresses to hostnames
to set up its scenario. The generator now does that everywhere, so the
rewrite matched nothing and was silently doing no work. It asserts the
premise instead, and fails if a numeric address ever reappears.
Verified by running three instances of this compose at once — tcp-chain plus
two independent meshes — which drew 10.128.2/3/4.0/24 with no overlap while
both meshes passed ping-test 20/20 over the real .fips path. tcp-chain is
run by neither CI runner, so it was checked by hand: chain peer counts 1/2/1
and multi-hop .fips reachable both directions over TCP.
gateway-lan still pins its own IPv4 and fd02:: ranges and is unchanged here,
so the gateway profile is not yet concurrency-safe.
New testing/boringtun/ harness runs two Cloudflare BoringTun userspace
WireGuard containers with iperf3 between them, giving a single-hop
userspace tunnel baseline for comparison against FIPS throughput
numbers. Local WG key generation runs through the harness image so the
host needs no wireguard-tools.
New testing/static/scripts/iperf-compare-refs.sh builds two git refs
into separate fips-test:* images via git worktree and runs the same
static iperf topology against both, with RUNS-based repetition and
aggregate avg/min/max reporting.
testing/static/scripts/iperf-test.sh gains DURATION, PARALLEL,
SETTLE_SECONDS, IPERF_TIMEOUT env knobs and a per-path iperf timeout.
testing/static/docker-compose.yml selects the image under test via
FIPS_TEST_IMAGE; testing/scripts/build.sh respects CARGO_TARGET_DIR.
Author benchmark on aarch64 Docker Desktop:
boringtun bob -> alice : 1000.13 Mbits/sec
macOS platform:
- Platform-native TUN interface management with shutdown pipe
- Raw Ethernet transport with macOS socket backend (socket_macos.rs)
- EthernetTransport and TransportHandle::Ethernet ungated from Linux-only
- macOS .pkg packaging (build-pkg.sh, launchd plist, uninstall script)
- CI: macOS build and unit test jobs; x86_64 cross-compiled from
macos-latest via rustup target add x86_64-apple-darwin
Gateway feature flag:
- New opt-in `gateway` Cargo feature activates optional `rustables` dep
- `pub mod gateway` and `Config.gateway` gated behind the feature so
macOS builds never pull in Linux-only nftables bindings
- `fips-gateway` bin has `required-features = ["gateway"]`
- All Linux/OpenWrt/AUR packaging passes `--features gateway`
CI / packaging:
- package-linux, package-macos, package-openwrt now trigger on push to
master/maint/next and on pull requests; release uploads remain tag-gated
- Bloom filter routing fix: fall through to tree routing when no candidate
is strictly closer
- MMP intervals: raise MIN to 1s / MAX to 5s with 5-sample cold-start phase
Update 9 documentation files to match current implementation:
- Add missing rekey config section (node.rekey.*) and host mapping
section to fips-configuration.md
- Update Ethernet frame format from [type:1][payload] to
[type:1][length:2 LE][payload] in wire-formats and transport docs
- Fix Ethernet effective MTU from interface-1 to interface-3
- Mark rekey as Implemented in mesh-layer and session-layer status tables
- Change TCP default port examples from 443 to 8443
- Add rekey, persistent identity, host mapping, mesh size estimation to
README features and status sections
- Update chaos scenario count from 16 to 20, add rekey topology to
static test docs
Chaos harness enhancements:
- transport_mix config: weighted random transport assignment for random
topologies (erdos_renyi, random_geometric) with UDP/Ethernet/TCP
- Replace LoRa with Bluetooth L2CAP in cost-based/mixed-tech scenarios
using realistic netem values (15-40ms delay, 5-15ms jitter, 2-8% loss)
- New churn-20-mixed scenario: 20-node Erdos-Renyi with 60% UDP,
20% Ethernet, 20% TCP, full netem/link-flap/churn/bandwidth config
- Expanded chaos README with full scenario catalog in four categories
Static harness:
- Updated README with topology table and scenario count
Update the default UDP bind port from 4000 to 2121 (decimal) and the
default Ethernet EtherType from 0x88B5 to 0x2121 across all source
code, documentation, configuration templates, test fixtures, and
scripts. Remove references to "IEEE 802 experimental range" since
0x2121 is not in that range.
Johnathan Corgan
Martti MalmiandJohnathan Corgan
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