At some point faketun got implemented as a loopback (put a packet in
from wireguard, the same packet goes back to wireguard) which is not
useful. It's supposed to be an interface that just sinks all packets,
and then wgengine adds *only* and ICMP Echo responder as a layer on
top.
This caused extremely odd bugs on darwin, where the special case that
reinjects packets from local->local was filling the loopback channel
and creating an infinite loop (which became jammed since the reader and
writer were in the same goroutine).
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
Right now, filtering and packet injection in wgengine depend
on a patch to wireguard-go that probably isn't suitable for upstreaming.
This need not be the case: wireguard-go/tun.Device is an interface.
For example, faketun.go implements it to mock a TUN device for testing.
This patch implements the same interface to provide filtering
and packet injection at the tunnel device level,
at which point the wireguard-go patch should no longer be necessary.
This patch has the following performance impact on i7-7500U @ 2.70GHz,
tested in the following namespace configuration:
┌────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────┐
│ $ns1 │ │ $ns0 │ │ $ns2 │
│ client0 │ │ tailcontrol, logcatcher │ │ client1 │
│ ┌─────┐ │ │ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ │ │ ┌─────┐ │
│ │vethc│───────┼────┼──│vethrc│ │vethrs│──────┼─────┼──│veths│ │
│ ├─────┴─────┐ │ │ ├──────┴────┐ ├──────┴────┐ │ │ ├─────┴─────┐ │
│ │10.0.0.2/24│ │ │ │10.0.0.1/24│ │10.0.1.1/24│ │ │ │10.0.1.2/24│ │
│ └───────────┘ │ │ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ │ │ └───────────┘ │
└────────────────┘ └─────────────────────────────────┘ └────────────────┘
Before:
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| TCP send | UDP send |
|------------------------|------------------------|
| 557.0 (±8.5) Mbits/sec | 3.03 (±0.02) Gbits/sec |
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After:
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| TCP send | UDP send |
|------------------------|------------------------|
| 544.8 (±1.6) Mbits/sec | 3.13 (±0.02) Gbits/sec |
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The impact on receive performance is similar.
Signed-off-by: Dmytro Shynkevych <dmytro@tailscale.com>
Avery Pennarun
Dmytro Shynkevych