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Johnathan Corgan 77ac8c822e Add fipstop TUI monitoring tool with smoothed metrics and quality indices
fipstop: ratatui-based TUI for real-time monitoring of a running FIPS daemon.

Tabs and navigation:
- 8 navigable tabs: Node, Peers, Transports, Sessions, Tree, Filters,
  Performance, Routing
- Tab/BackTab navigation with group separators in tab bar
- Table views with selectable rows, detail drill-down panels, and scrollbars

Node tab:
- Runtime info: pid, exe path, uptime, control socket path, TUN adapter name
- Identity: npub, node_addr, ipv6 address
- State summary with peer/session/link/transport/connection counts
- TUN IPv6 traffic and forwarded transit traffic counters

Peers tab:
- Table with Name, Address, Conn, Depth, SRTT, Loss, LQI, Pkts Tx/Rx
- Detail panel: identity, connection info, transport cross-reference,
  tree/bloom state, link stats, MMP metrics with LQI

Sessions tab:
- Table with Name, Remote Addr, State, Role, SRTT, Loss, SQI, Path MTU,
  Last Activity
- Detail panel: identity, session info, traffic stats, MMP metrics with SQI

Transports tab:
- Hierarchical tree view: expandable transport parents with nested links
  (▼/▶ indicators, ├─/└─ tree chars, Space/Arrow to expand/collapse)
- Transport detail: type-specific stats (UDP/TCP/Ethernet)
- Link detail: peer cross-reference with MMP metrics and LQI

Performance tab:
- Link-layer MMP: SRTT, loss, ETX, LQI, goodput per peer
- Session-layer MMP: SRTT, loss, ETX, SQI, path MTU per session
- Trend indicators (rising/falling/stable) with context-aware coloring

Routing tab:
- Routing state: cache sizes, pending lookups, recent requests
- Coordinate cache: entries, fill ratio, TTL, expiry, avg age
- Statistics: forwarding, discovery request/response, error signal counters

Tree tab:
- Spanning tree position with 16 announce stats (inbound/outbound/cumulative)

Filters tab:
- Bloom filter announce stats, per-peer fill ratio and estimated node count

MMP metrics enhancements:
- Add etx_trend DualEwma for smoothed ETX tracking
- Add smoothed_loss() and smoothed_etx() accessors (long-term EWMA)
- LQI (Link Quality Index) = smoothed_etx * (1 + srtt_ms / 100)
- SQI (Session Quality Index) = same formula for session layer
- All loss/ETX displays prefer smoothed values with raw fallback

Control socket:
- Add smoothed_loss, smoothed_etx, lqi/sqi to show_peers, show_sessions,
  and show_mmp JSON responses
- Rename fips_address to ipv6_addr in show_status and show_peers
- Add tun_name and control_socket to show_status
- FHS-compliant 3-tier default path: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, /run/fips, /tmp

Node extensions:
- Add started_at/uptime() to Node
- Add tun_name() accessor

Docker sidecar updates:
- TCP transport support via FIPS_PEER_TRANSPORT env var
- Build scripts include fipstop binary
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FIPS Testing

Integration and simulation test harnesses for FIPS, using Docker containers running the full protocol stack.

Test Harnesses

static/ -- Static Docker Network

Fixed topologies with manual scripts for building, config generation, connectivity tests (ping, iperf), and network impairment (netem). Useful for deterministic debugging and validating specific topology configurations.

Topology Nodes Transport Description
mesh 5 UDP Sparse mesh, 6 links, multi-hop
chain 5 UDP Linear chain, max 4-hop paths
mesh-public 5+1 UDP Mesh with external public node
tcp-chain 3 TCP Linear chain over TCP (port 443)

chaos/ -- Stochastic Simulation

Automated network testing with configurable node counts, topology algorithms (random geometric, Erdos-Renyi, chain, explicit), and fault injection (netem mutation, link flaps, traffic generation, node churn). 16 scenarios covering general stress testing, cost-based parent selection, mixed link technologies (fiber/Bluetooth/WiFi), and transport-specific validation (UDP, TCP, Ethernet). Scenarios are defined in YAML and executed via a Python harness that manages the full lifecycle: topology generation, Docker orchestration, fault scheduling, log collection, and analysis.