Separate control and data logically, move WireGuard into userspace, add a CLI

Corrects the architecture on two points raised in review, while the project
is still small enough to change cheaply.

1. Control and data are separated *logically*, not physically.

The old reading — "nothing but control may ride on iroh" — threw away iroh's
whole value and would have forced the data plane to reimplement STUN, ICE and
a relay. Now both planes ride on iroh with different ALPNs and different
connections, so the data plane inherits hole punching and relay fallback,
while proto/ still knows nothing about packets and dataplane/ knows nothing
about the control protocol.

New boundary: PacketTransport / PacketLink, an authenticated unreliable
datagram channel per (network, peer, protocol). tsunagi/data/1 runs the same
membership handshake, then DataOpen/DataOpenAck, then QUIC datagrams. Only
the smaller endpoint id dials, so exactly one link exists per pair.

A plugin is handed links and never learns reachability, so the WireGuard
announcement shrank to a public key: there is no address left to lie about.

2. WireGuard now runs in userspace, on boringtun's protocol state machine.

No kernel module, no wg tool, no ip shell-out, no loopback proxy: the wgtool,
backend and bridge modules are gone. Only creating a TUN device needs
privileges, and that sits behind TunFactory, so the entire data plane —
handshake, encryption, routing, address ownership — is tested with none.

Address ownership is enforced rather than believed: outbound packets go to
the owner of the destination address, inbound packets are dropped unless
their source is the address derived for the peer that sent them.

3. A `tsunagi` binary: secret, doctor, id, up. It owns the runtime, the
logging subscriber and Ctrl-C, which the library still refuses to.

Also fixes a reference cycle where IrohTransport held Arc<Inner>, which kept
the databases open and the directory lock held after shutdown; two storage
tests caught it once the cycle existed.

81 tests pass offline with no privileges, including real IPv6 packets
crossing a real WireGuard tunnel over real iroh connections. Verified by
hand: two CLI processes forming a mesh both on loopback and via n0 discovery
using only an endpoint id.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
tsunagi
2026-09-21 11:55:20 +01:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent ea7aaa2b69
commit 21be7e9b44
35 changed files with 3987 additions and 2664 deletions
+94 -98
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@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
//! Two agents forming a WireGuard overlay, printed step by step.
//! Two agents forming a WireGuard overlay and exchanging a real IP packet.
//!
//! ```text
//! cargo run --example wireguard_mesh
//! ```
//!
//! By default it uses the in-memory backend, so it needs no privileges and
//! changes nothing on the host: it shows the configuration each agent *would*
//! apply. Pass `--real` to drive the actual `wg` and `ip` tools instead, which
//! needs Linux and `CAP_NET_ADMIN`.
//! It uses an in-memory packet interface, so it needs no privileges and
//! changes nothing on the host: the WireGuard handshake, the encryption and
//! the transport over iroh are all real, only the TUN device is simulated.
use std::net::IpAddr;
use std::net::{IpAddr, Ipv6Addr};
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::time::Duration;
use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
use bytes::Bytes;
use tsunagi::config::{AgentConfig, StoragePaths, TransportPolicy};
use tsunagi::dataplane::IpPlugin;
use tsunagi::dataplane::wireguard::{
AdvertisePolicy, PortPolicy, RecordingBackend, WireguardBackend, WireguardConfig,
WireguardPlugin,
MemoryTun, MemoryTunFactory, WireguardConfig, WireguardPlugin,
};
use tsunagi::discovery::SharedMemoryDiscovery;
use tsunagi::identity::{NetworkName, NetworkSecret};
@@ -26,32 +25,21 @@ use tsunagi::{Agent, NetworkId, Result};
struct Node {
agent: Agent,
plugin: Arc<WireguardPlugin>,
backend: Option<RecordingBackend>,
tuns: MemoryTunFactory,
}
async fn start(
root: &std::path::Path,
discovery: &SharedMemoryDiscovery,
prefix: &str,
advertise: IpAddr,
real: bool,
) -> Result<Node> {
let recording = (!real).then(RecordingBackend::new);
let backend: Arc<dyn WireguardBackend> = match &recording {
Some(backend) => Arc::new(backend.clone()),
None => Arc::new(
tsunagi::dataplane::wireguard::WgToolBackend::new()
.map_err(|err| tsunagi::Error::Discovery(err.to_string()))?,
),
};
let wireguard = WireguardConfig::new(root.join("wireguard"))
.with_interface_prefix(prefix)
.with_advertise(AdvertisePolicy::Explicit(vec![advertise]))
.with_ports(PortPolicy::Fixed(if real { 51820 } else { 51821 }));
let plugin = WireguardPlugin::open(wireguard, backend)
.await
.map_err(|err| tsunagi::Error::Discovery(err.to_string()))?;
let tuns = MemoryTunFactory::new();
let plugin = WireguardPlugin::open(
WireguardConfig::new(root.join("wireguard")).with_interface_prefix(prefix),
Arc::new(tuns.clone()),
)
.await
.map_err(|err| tsunagi::Error::Discovery(err.to_string()))?;
let agent = Agent::spawn(
AgentConfig::new(StoragePaths::under(root))
@@ -66,49 +54,67 @@ async fn start(
Ok(Node {
agent,
plugin,
backend: recording,
tuns,
})
}
fn report(label: &str, node: &Node, network: NetworkId) {
let Some(view) = node.plugin.overview(network) else {
println!("{label}: the plugin has not prepared this network yet");
println!("{label}: not prepared yet");
return;
};
println!("\n{label}");
println!(" interface {}", view.interface);
println!(" public key {}", view.public_key);
println!(" interface {} (mtu {})", view.interface, view.mtu);
println!(" public key {}", view.public_key);
println!(
" overlay {} in {}",
view.overlay_address, view.overlay_prefix
" overlay {} in {}/{}",
view.overlay_address, view.overlay_prefix, view.overlay_prefix_len
);
println!(" listening on :{}", view.listen_port);
println!(" advertising {:?}", view.advertised);
for peer in &view.peers {
println!(
" peer {} -> {} via {:?}",
peer.public_key.fmt_short(),
peer.overlay_address,
peer.endpoint
);
}
if let Some(backend) = &node.backend
&& let Some(state) = backend.state(&view.interface)
{
println!(" applied {} peer(s)", state.peers.len());
for peer in &state.peers {
println!(
" AllowedIPs for {} = {:?}",
match &peer.tunnel {
Some(tunnel) => println!(
" peer {} at {} — handshake {:?}, tx {} rx {}, path {}",
peer.public_key.fmt_short(),
peer.allowed_ips
.iter()
.map(ToString::to_string)
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
);
peer.overlay_address,
tunnel.health.since_handshake,
tunnel.stats.tx_packets,
tunnel.stats.rx_packets,
tunnel.path
),
None => println!(
" peer {} at {} — no data link yet",
peer.public_key.fmt_short(),
peer.overlay_address
),
}
}
}
fn ipv6_packet(source: Ipv6Addr, destination: Ipv6Addr, payload: &[u8]) -> Bytes {
let mut packet = Vec::with_capacity(40 + payload.len());
packet.push(6 << 4);
packet.extend_from_slice(&[0, 0, 0]);
packet.extend_from_slice(&(payload.len() as u16).to_be_bytes());
packet.push(59);
packet.push(64);
packet.extend_from_slice(&source.octets());
packet.extend_from_slice(&destination.octets());
packet.extend_from_slice(payload);
Bytes::from(packet)
}
fn overlay_of(node: &Node, network: NetworkId) -> Option<Ipv6Addr> {
match node.plugin.overview(network)?.overlay_address {
IpAddr::V6(addr) => Some(addr),
IpAddr::V4(_) => None,
}
}
fn tun_of(node: &Node, network: NetworkId) -> Option<Arc<MemoryTun>> {
let view = node.plugin.overview(network)?;
node.tuns.device(&view.interface)
}
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
tracing_subscriber::fmt()
@@ -118,12 +124,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
)
.init();
let real = std::env::args().any(|arg| arg == "--real");
if real {
println!("driving the real wg/ip tools; this needs Linux and CAP_NET_ADMIN\n");
} else {
println!("using the in-memory backend; nothing on this host is changed\n");
}
println!("in-memory packet interface: nothing on this host is changed\n");
let root = match tempfile::TempDir::new() {
Ok(root) => root,
@@ -134,22 +135,8 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
};
let discovery = SharedMemoryDiscovery::new();
let alice = start(
&root.path().join("alice"),
&discovery,
"wga",
"10.88.0.1".parse().unwrap_or(IpAddr::from([10, 88, 0, 1])),
real,
)
.await?;
let bob = start(
&root.path().join("bob"),
&discovery,
"wgb",
"10.88.0.2".parse().unwrap_or(IpAddr::from([10, 88, 0, 2])),
real,
)
.await?;
let alice = start(&root.path().join("alice"), &discovery, "wga").await?;
let bob = start(&root.path().join("bob"), &discovery, "wgb").await?;
let name = NetworkName::new("wireguard-demo")?;
let secret = NetworkSecret::generate();
@@ -162,34 +149,43 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
bob.agent.join_network(&name, &secret).await?;
println!("network id: {network}");
// Wait until both sides configured one peer, under a bounded deadline.
let deadline = std::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(20);
let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(20);
loop {
let ready = [&alice, &bob].iter().all(|node| {
let Some(view) = node.plugin.overview(network) else {
return false;
};
if view.peers.len() != 1 {
return false;
}
// With the in-memory backend we can also wait for the
// configuration to actually be applied.
match &node.backend {
Some(backend) => backend
.state(&view.interface)
.map(|state| state.peers.len() == 1)
.unwrap_or(false),
None => true,
}
node.plugin
.overview(network)
.map(|view| view.established_peers() == 1)
.unwrap_or(false)
});
if ready {
break;
}
if std::time::Instant::now() > deadline {
println!("\nthe overlay did not converge in time");
break;
if Instant::now() > deadline {
println!("\nthe overlay did not come up in time");
report("alice", &alice, network);
report("bob", &bob, network);
return Ok(());
}
tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50)).await;
}
// A real IP packet, encrypted by WireGuard and carried over iroh.
if let (Some(from), Some(to), Some(tun_a), Some(tun_b)) = (
overlay_of(&alice, network),
overlay_of(&bob, network),
tun_of(&alice, network),
tun_of(&bob, network),
) {
tun_a.push_from_os(ipv6_packet(from, to, b"hello over the overlay"));
match tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), tun_b.pop_to_os()).await {
Ok(Some(packet)) => println!(
"\nbob received {} bytes from {}: {:?}",
packet.len(),
from,
String::from_utf8_lossy(&packet[40..])
),
_ => println!("\nthe packet did not arrive"),
}
tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100)).await;
}
report("alice", &alice, network);