tstest/natlab/{vmtest,vnet}, cmd/tta: add TestExitNode

Add a vmtest TestExitNode that brings up a client, two exit nodes, and a
non-Tailscale webserver, each on its own NAT'd vnet network with a
distinct WAN IP. The test cycles the client's exit node setting between
off, exit1, and exit2 and asserts that the webserver echoes the expected
post-NAT source IP for each.

Three pieces were needed to make this work:

vnet now forwards TCP between simulated networks at the packet level,
mirroring the existing UDP path. When a guest VM sends TCP to another
simulated network's WAN IP, the source network's gateway rewrites src
via doNATOut and routeTCPPacket hands the packet off to the destination
network, which rewrites dst via doNATIn and writes the rewritten frame
onto the destination LAN. The TCP stacks of the two guest VM kernels
talk end-to-end; vnet just NATs the IP/port headers in flight, so all
TCP semantics (handshakes, options, sequence numbers, payload) are
preserved without a gvisor TCP termination in the middle. Adds a
focused TestInterNetworkTCP that exercises this path without any
Tailscale machinery.

cmd/tta binds its outbound dial to the default route's interface using
SO_BINDTODEVICE. Without that, the moment tailscaled installs
0.0.0.0/0 → tailscale0 in response to setting an exit node, TTA's
existing TCP connection to test-driver gets rerouted through the exit
node. From the test driver's perspective the connection's packets then
arrive with the exit node's WAN IP as the source rather than the
client's, so they don't match the existing flow and the connection is
dead — manifesting in the test as a hang on EditPrefs (which had
actually completed in milliseconds on the daemon side, but whose
response never made it back). Pinning the socket to the underlying NIC
keeps TTA's agent connection on a real interface regardless of any
policy routing tailscaled installs later. We bind rather than carry the
Tailscale bypass fwmark because the fwmark approach is conditional on
tailscaled having configured SO_MARK-based policy routing, while
binding is unconditional.

vmtest grows an Env.SetExitNode helper that sets ExitNodeIP via
EditPrefs through the agent, used by the new test.

Updates #13038

Change-Id: I9fc8f91848b7aa2297ef3eaf71fed9d96056a024
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This commit is contained in:
Brad Fitzpatrick
2026-04-27 20:53:50 +00:00
committed by Brad Fitzpatrick
parent 10b63f27ce
commit 5c1738fd56
6 changed files with 367 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -387,6 +387,45 @@ func (e *Env) startWebServer(ctx context.Context, n *Node) error {
return nil
}
// SetExitNode sets the client node's exit node to use for internet traffic.
// If exitNode is nil, the client's exit node is cleared (i.e., turned off).
// Otherwise exitNode must be a tailnet node with an approved 0.0.0.0/0 (and
// ::/0) route, typically configured via [AdvertiseRoutes] and
// [Env.ApproveRoutes].
func (e *Env) SetExitNode(client, exitNode *Node) {
e.t.Helper()
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
defer cancel()
var ip netip.Addr
if exitNode != nil {
st, err := exitNode.agent.Status(ctx)
if err != nil {
e.t.Fatalf("SetExitNode: status for %s: %v", exitNode.name, err)
}
if len(st.Self.TailscaleIPs) == 0 {
e.t.Fatalf("SetExitNode: %s has no Tailscale IPs", exitNode.name)
}
ip = st.Self.TailscaleIPs[0]
}
if _, err := client.agent.EditPrefs(ctx, &ipn.MaskedPrefs{
Prefs: ipn.Prefs{
ExitNodeID: "",
ExitNodeIP: ip,
},
ExitNodeIDSet: true,
ExitNodeIPSet: true,
}); err != nil {
e.t.Fatalf("SetExitNode(%s -> %v): %v", client.name, exitNode, err)
}
if exitNode == nil {
e.t.Logf("[%s] cleared exit node", client.name)
} else {
e.t.Logf("[%s] using exit node %s (%v)", client.name, exitNode.name, ip)
}
}
// ApproveRoutes tells the test control server to approve subnet routes
// for the given node. The routes should be CIDR strings.
func (e *Env) ApproveRoutes(n *Node, routes ...string) {
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@@ -127,3 +127,106 @@ func testSiteToSite(t *testing.T, srOS vmtest.OSImage) {
t.Fatalf("source IP not preserved: expected %q in response, got %q", backendAIP, body)
}
}
// TestInterNetworkTCP verifies that vnet routes raw TCP between simulated
// networks: a non-Tailscale VM on one NAT'd LAN can reach a webserver on a
// different network using a 1:1 NAT, and the webserver sees the client's
// network's WAN IP as the source (post-NAT).
func TestInterNetworkTCP(t *testing.T) {
env := vmtest.New(t)
const (
clientWAN = "1.0.0.1"
webWAN = "5.0.0.1"
)
clientNet := env.AddNetwork(clientWAN, "192.168.1.1/24", vnet.EasyNAT)
webNet := env.AddNetwork(webWAN, "192.168.5.1/24", vnet.One2OneNAT)
client := env.AddNode("client", clientNet,
vmtest.OS(vmtest.Gokrazy),
vmtest.DontJoinTailnet())
env.AddNode("webserver", webNet,
vmtest.OS(vmtest.Gokrazy),
vmtest.DontJoinTailnet(),
vmtest.WebServer(8080))
env.Start()
body := env.HTTPGet(client, fmt.Sprintf("http://%s:8080/", webWAN))
t.Logf("response: %s", body)
if !strings.Contains(body, "Hello world I am webserver") {
t.Fatalf("unexpected response: %q", body)
}
if !strings.Contains(body, "from "+clientWAN) {
t.Fatalf("expected source %q in response, got %q", clientWAN, body)
}
}
// TestExitNode verifies that switching the client's exit node setting between
// off, exit1, and exit2 correctly routes the client's internet traffic.
//
// Topology: each of the client and the two exit nodes lives behind its own NAT
// with a unique WAN IP, and a webserver lives on yet another network using a
// 1:1 NAT so it's reachable from the simulated internet at a stable address.
// The webserver echoes the source IP of incoming requests, so we can tell
// which network's NAT the client's traffic egressed through:
// - off: source is the client's network WAN IP.
// - exit1: source is exit1's network WAN IP.
// - exit2: source is exit2's network WAN IP.
func TestExitNode(t *testing.T) {
env := vmtest.New(t)
const (
clientWAN = "1.0.0.1"
exit1WAN = "2.0.0.1"
exit2WAN = "3.0.0.1"
webWAN = "5.0.0.1"
)
clientNet := env.AddNetwork(clientWAN, "192.168.1.1/24", vnet.EasyNAT)
exit1Net := env.AddNetwork(exit1WAN, "192.168.2.1/24", vnet.EasyNAT)
exit2Net := env.AddNetwork(exit2WAN, "192.168.3.1/24", vnet.EasyNAT)
webNet := env.AddNetwork(webWAN, "192.168.5.1/24", vnet.One2OneNAT)
client := env.AddNode("client", clientNet,
vmtest.OS(vmtest.Gokrazy))
exit1 := env.AddNode("exit1", exit1Net,
vmtest.OS(vmtest.Gokrazy),
vmtest.AdvertiseRoutes("0.0.0.0/0,::/0"))
exit2 := env.AddNode("exit2", exit2Net,
vmtest.OS(vmtest.Gokrazy),
vmtest.AdvertiseRoutes("0.0.0.0/0,::/0"))
env.AddNode("webserver", webNet,
vmtest.OS(vmtest.Gokrazy),
vmtest.DontJoinTailnet(),
vmtest.WebServer(8080))
env.Start()
env.ApproveRoutes(exit1, "0.0.0.0/0", "::/0")
env.ApproveRoutes(exit2, "0.0.0.0/0", "::/0")
webURL := fmt.Sprintf("http://%s:8080/", webWAN)
tests := []struct {
name string // subtest name
exit *vmtest.Node
wantSrc string
}{
{"off", nil, clientWAN},
{"exit1", exit1, exit1WAN},
{"exit2", exit2, exit2WAN},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
env.SetExitNode(client, tt.exit)
body := env.HTTPGet(client, webURL)
t.Logf("response: %s", body)
if !strings.Contains(body, "Hello world I am webserver") {
t.Fatalf("unexpected webserver response: %q", body)
}
if !strings.Contains(body, "from "+tt.wantSrc) {
t.Fatalf("expected source %q in response, got %q", tt.wantSrc, body)
}
})
}
}