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Access layer for phones and laptops to reach FIPS routers on OpenWrt, stacked on the 802.11s mesh backhaul from #123. Squashed from five commits by Arjen (Origami74); their original messages follow. * feat(openwrt): open !FIPS access SSID — fips-ap-setup helper, default transport binding, how-to Client access layer for phones and laptops: every FIPS router broadcasts the same open SSID ('!FIPS' — the leading '!' sorts it to the top of alphabetically ordered network pickers), forming one standard ESS. Clients save it once and roam between all FIPS routers natively, with FIPS's Noise IK handshake as the only security layer: - fips-ap-setup: opt-in UCI helper that creates the 'fips-ap0' open AP (encryption none — security type must be uniform across routers or clients treat the ESS as different saved networks), an isolated network with a static ULA /64, RA-only odhcpd addressing (stateless SLAAC, no DHCP — the minimum that satisfies Android's provisioning check; no internet by design, so phones keep cellular as default route), and a locked-down fips_ap firewall zone (no path to br-lan or the WAN; only ICMPv6, mDNS, and the FIPS transports reachable). 'remove' subcommand undoes it. Radio setup stays opt-in; a package must not commandeer radios on install. - fips.yaml: ship 'ap0'/'ap1' Ethernet-transport entries commented out (matching the 802.11s mesh backhaul) so a stock install that never creates fips-ap* logs no per-boot "interface missing" bind warning; fips-ap-setup uncomments the matching block when it creates the interface and re-comments it on remove. - Regression test: extend shipped_openwrt_config_parses to assert the ap0/ap1 entries ship commented out and still parse once uncommented, alongside mesh0/mesh1. - Packaging: install the helper in ipk/apk/buildroot (three synced copies), extend CI structural checks and shellcheck targets. - docs/how-to/set-up-open-access-ssid.md: full guide, including the one-time 'no internet, stay connected' acceptance (stored per SSID, covers every FIPS router) and the security-type-uniformity constraint. * docs(openwrt): correct open-SSID/mesh security framing — peering is open by design The fips-ap-setup/fips-mesh-setup comments and both how-tos claimed a stranger "cannot pass the FIPS handshake" / "their frames die at the handshake" / the handshake surface "drops them". That is wrong: FIPS peer admission is open. An inbound handshake from any net-new identity is promoted (node::handlers::handshake::promote_connection), gated only by the daemon's max-peers cap — there is no allowlist, no PSK, and the AuthChallenge path is not wired to admission. The Noise IK handshake provides authentication (no impersonation of another identity, no MITM), not authorization. Restate the model accurately in all five places: a stranger on the open SSID (or the open mesh) can associate AND form a FIPS peer link — that is the point of open access. Containment is the isolated fips_ap zone (no path to br-lan or the WAN) plus the max-peers cap, not the handshake. Clarify that AP client isolation is an L2 control only: a peered stranger is an overlay peer like any other, so the FIPS overlay, not L2, is the trust boundary between clients. * feat(openwrt): serve DHCPv4 on the access SSID from a fixed roamable subnet RA-only addressing satisfied Android's provisioning check but left anything expecting IPv4 with a self-assigned address and a "no IP" complaint. dnsmasq now leases out of 10.21.<N>.0/24 (N = radio index; prefix echoes FIPS port 2121), deliberately identical on every router: a roaming client keeps its lease across the ESS, and dnsmasq's authoritative mode — the OpenWrt default, pinned by the helper — ACKs the renew a foreign router never issued. Lease collisions across routers surface as a NAK on renew and the client re-DHCPs. The dhcp section's 'dhcpv4 server' is read by both dnsmasq (default images) and odhcpd (only with maindhcp), so either arrangement serves. A DHCPv4/udp-67 accept rule joins the fips_ap zone; DHCPv6 stays off, the ULA RA stays as-is, and nothing depends on an upstream. The zone remains isolated — no forwardings, no internet. * feat(openwrt): enable mDNS rendezvous from fips-ap-setup Phone FIPS apps cannot open raw-Ethernet sockets, so DNS-SD is how they find the router's daemon — but node.rendezvous.lan defaults to off. Ship the lan block commented in fips.yaml (consistent with the apN transport entries) and have fips-ap-setup uncomment it when creating the access SSID. The awk match is scoped to node.rendezvous because transports.ethernet carries a 'lan' entry at the same indent. The switch is daemon-wide, so 'remove' deliberately leaves it on rather than guess whether other transports rely on it. * fix(openwrt): bind UDP dual-stack [::]:2121 so access-SSID clients reach it The shipped router config bound the UDP transport "0.0.0.0:2121" (IPv4 wildcard) while the mDNS LAN advert announces every interface address, including the router's IPv6 link-local — which phones on the !FIPS access SSID rightly prefer (their cellular default route swallows v4, and fd00::/8 is captured by the Myco mesh TUN). Result: the client's Noise msg1 arrives on an unbound v6 port and is silently lost; the handshake resends and times out. Symptom chain (observed on-device): mDNS resolve OK, platform push OK, "Sent Noise handshake message 1" to [fe80::…%N]:2121, four resends, no reply, 30 s stale-timeout. OpenWrt is Linux (bindv6only=0), so "[::]" accepts IPv4 via v4-mapped addresses too — nothing is lost. packaging/common is deliberately left on "0.0.0.0" for now: Windows defaults IPV6_V6ONLY=1, where "[::]" would drop v4 instead.
FIPS Packaging
This directory contains packaging for all supported target platforms.
All build outputs go to deploy/ at the project root.
Quick Start
make deb # Debian/Ubuntu .deb
make tarball # systemd install tarball
make ipk # OpenWrt .ipk (opkg, OpenWrt 24.x and earlier)
make apk # OpenWrt .apk (apk-tools, mandatory on OpenWrt 25+)
make aur # Arch Linux AUR package (fips-git, local build + namcap)
make pkg # macOS .pkg installer
make zip # Windows .zip package
make all # deb + tarball (default)
Build Prerequisites
These targets build FIPS from source, so the host needs a build
environment in addition to a Rust toolchain (the version pinned in
rust-toolchain.toml is auto-installed by rustup).
On Linux, libclang is required: the LAN gateway's nftables
bindings are generated by bindgen at build time, which needs
libclang.so on the build host. Without it the build fails inside the
rustables crate with an "Unable to find libclang" error.
sudo apt install libclang-dev # Debian / Ubuntu
This is a build-time prerequisite only — it is not a runtime
dependency, so hosts installing a pre-built .deb do not need it.
BLE support is optional and, when building with it, additionally needs
bluez, libdbus-1-dev, and pkg-config; the build picks up BLE if
those are present and skips it cleanly if not.
Directory Structure
packaging/
aur/ Arch Linux AUR packaging (PKGBUILD, supporting files)
common/ Shared assets (default config, hosts file)
debian/ Debian/Ubuntu .deb packaging via cargo-deb
macos/ macOS .pkg installer via pkgbuild
systemd/ Generic Linux systemd tarball packaging
openwrt-ipk/ OpenWrt .ipk packaging via cargo-zigbuild (opkg)
openwrt-apk/ OpenWrt .apk packaging via cargo-zigbuild + apk mkpkg
windows/ Windows .zip package with service scripts
Formats
Debian/Ubuntu (.deb)
Built with cargo-deb. Installs
fips, fipsctl, and fipstop to /usr/bin/, and enables the systemd
service.
The default configuration ships as an example at
/usr/share/fips/fips.yaml.example and is not a dpkg conf-file.
(It is deliberately not under /usr/share/doc, which minimal and
container installs path-exclude, since the postinst reads it at install
time.)
On install, postinst seeds /etc/fips/fips.yaml (mode 600) from the
example only if it does not already exist, so a configuration that
was rendered by configuration management or edited by an operator is
never prompted for or clobbered on upgrade. To reset to defaults, remove
/etc/fips/fips.yaml and reinstall, or copy the example back manually.
# Build
make deb
# Install
sudo dpkg -i deploy/fips_<version>_<arch>.deb
# Remove (preserves config and keys)
sudo dpkg -r fips
# Purge (removes config and identity keys)
sudo dpkg -P fips
systemd Tarball
A self-contained tarball with binaries and an install.sh script for
any systemd-based Linux distribution.
# Build
make tarball
# Install (on target host)
tar -xzf deploy/fips-<version>-linux-<arch>.tar.gz
sudo ./fips-<version>-linux-<arch>/install.sh
See systemd/README.install.md for full installation and configuration instructions.
OpenWrt (.ipk, opkg — OpenWrt 24.x and earlier)
Cross-compiled with cargo-zigbuild and assembled as a standard .ipk
archive. Supports aarch64, mipsel, mips, arm, and x86_64 targets.
# Build (default: aarch64)
make ipk
# Build for a specific architecture
bash packaging/openwrt-ipk/build-ipk.sh --arch mipsel
See openwrt-ipk/README.md for router-specific installation instructions.
OpenWrt (.apk, apk-tools — mandatory on OpenWrt 25+)
OpenWrt 25 makes apk-tools the mandatory package manager (it is opt-in on
24.10). Same SDK-free approach
(cargo-zigbuild), but the .apk container is assembled by apk mkpkg
rather than hand-rolled, so the build additionally needs an apk-tools v3
apk binary built from source. The installed-filesystem payload is shared
with the .ipk package.
# Build (default: aarch64; also x86_64)
make apk
# Build for a specific architecture
bash packaging/openwrt-apk/build-apk.sh --arch x86_64
Packages are unsigned; install with apk add --allow-untrusted. See
openwrt-apk/README.md for building apk-tools and
router-specific installation.
macOS (.pkg)
Built with pkgbuild (included with Xcode command-line tools). Installs
binaries to /usr/local/bin/, config to /usr/local/etc/fips/, sets up
the /etc/resolver/fips DNS resolver for .fips domains, and loads a
launchd daemon. The TUN device is named utun<N> (kernel-assigned)
rather than fips0.
# Build
make pkg
# Install
sudo installer -pkg deploy/fips-<version>-macos-<arch>.pkg -target /
# Remove
sudo packaging/macos/uninstall.sh
Windows (.zip)
A ZIP archive containing binaries, default config, and PowerShell service helper scripts. Requires the wintun driver for TUN support.
# Build
make zip
# Or directly
powershell -File packaging/windows/build-zip.ps1
# Extract and install as service (requires Administrator)
Expand-Archive deploy\fips-<version>-windows-x86_64.zip -DestinationPath fips
cd fips
powershell -File install-service.ps1
# Uninstall (preserves config)
powershell -File uninstall-service.ps1
# Uninstall and remove config
powershell -File uninstall-service.ps1 -RemoveAll
Arch Linux (AUR)
Two AUR packages are maintained: fips (release, builds from tagged
tarball) and fips-git (development, builds from latest git master).
# Build and validate locally (git variant)
make aur
# Install from AUR
yay -S fips-git # development build from master
yay -S fips # release build from latest tag
See aur/README.md for AUR publication instructions and maintainer guide.
Nix / NixOS (flake)
A flake at the project root builds all four binaries
(fips, fipsctl, fips-gateway, fipstop) from source. It pins the
exact toolchain from rust-toolchain.toml via
fenix and wires up the
build-time native dependencies (libclang for bindgen, plus dbus
and pkg-config for BLE), so it needs no system setup beyond Nix with
flakes enabled.
nix build .#fips # build the package (all four binaries)
nix run .#fips -- --help # run a binary directly
nix run .#fipsctl -- status
nix develop # dev shell with the pinned toolchain + cargo-edit
nix flake check # build + validate the flake
Add to a NixOS configuration via the flake's packages.<system>.fips
output, e.g. environment.systemPackages = [ fips.packages.${system}.default ];.
Shared Assets
common/ contains assets used across packaging formats:
fips.yaml— default configuration (ephemeral identity, UDP/TCP/TUN/DNS)hosts— static hostname-to-npub mappings for.fipsDNS resolution