Etherguard

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A Full Mesh Layer2 VPN based on wireguard-go

OSPF can find best route based on it's cost.
But sometimes the latency are different in the packet goes and back.
I'm thinking, is it possible to find the best route based on the single-way latency?
For example, I have two routes A and B at node N1, both of them can reach my node N2. A goes fast, but B backs fast.
My VPN can automatically send packet through route A at node N1, and the packet backs from route B.

Here is the solution. This VPN Etherguard can collect all the single-way latency from all nodes, and calculate the best route using Floyd–Warshall algorithm.

Worried about the clock not match so that the measure result are not correct? It doesn't matter, here is the proof (Mandarin): https://www.kskb.eu.org/2021/08/rootless-routerpart-3-etherguard.html

Usage

Usage of ./etherguard-go:
  -bind string
        UDP socket bind mode. [linux|std]
        You may need std mode if tou want to run Etherguard under WSL. (default "linux")
  -config string
        Config path.
  -example
        Print example config
  -help
        Show this help
  -mode string
        Running mode. [super|edge|solve]
  -no-uapi
        Do not use UAPI
        With UAPI, you can check etherguard status by `wg` command
  -version
        Show version

Mode

1. Static Mode: Similar to original wireguard. Introduction.
2. Super Mode: Inspired byn2n. Introduction.
3. P2P Mode: Inspired bytinc. Introduction.

Common Config Paramater

Edge Config

1. interface
   1. itype: Interface type.
      1. dummy: Dymmy interface, drop any packet received. You need this if you want to setup it as a relay node.
      2. stdio: Wrtie to stdout，read from stdin.
         Paramaters: macaddrprefix,l2headermode
      3. udpsock: Read/Write the raw packet to an udp socket.
         Paramaters: recvaddr,sendaddr
      4. tcpsock: Read/Write the raw packet to a tcp socket.
         Paramaters: recvaddr,sendaddr
      5. unixsock: Read/Write the raw packet to an unix socket.
         Paramaters: recvaddr,sendaddr
      6. fd: Read/Write the raw packet to specific file descriptor.
         Paramaters: None. But require environment variable EG_FD_RX and EG_FD_TX
      7. vpp: Integrate to VPP by libmemif.
         Paramaters: name,vppifaceid,vppbridgeid,macaddrprefix,mtu
      8. tap: Read/Write to tap device from linux.
         Paramaters: name,macaddrprefix,vppifaceid,mtu
   2. name : Device name
   3. vppifaceid: Interface ID。Muse be unique in same VPP runtime
   4. vppbridgeid: VPP Bridge ID. Fill 0 if you don't use it.
   5. macaddrprefix: Mac address Prefix.
      Real Mac address=[Prefix]:[NodeID].
      If you fill full mac address here, NodeID will be ignored.
   6. recvaddr: Listen address for XXXsock mode(server mode)
   7. sendaddr: Packet send address for XXXsock mode(client mode)
   8. l2headermode: For debug usage, for stdio mode only
      1. nochg: Do not change anything.
      2. kbdbg: Keyboard debug mode.
         Let me construct Layer 2 header by ascii character only.
         So that I can track the packet flow with loglevel option.
      3. noL2: Remove all Layer 2 header, all boardcast
2. nodeid: NodeID. Must be unique in the whole Etherguard network.
3. nodename: Node Name.
4. defaultttl: Default TTL(etherguard layer. not affect ethernet layer)
5. l2fibtimeout: The timeout(in seconds) of the MacAddr-> NodeID lookup table
6. privkey: Private key. Same spec as wireguard.
7. listenport: UDP lesten port
8. loglevel: Log Level
   1. loglevel: debug,error,slient for wirefuard logger.
   2. logtransit: Log packets that neither the source or distenation is self.
   3. logcontrol: Log for all Control Message.
   4. lognormal: Log packets that either the source or distenation is self.
   5. logntp: NTP related logs.
9. dynamicroute: Log for dynamic route.
   1. sendpinginterval: Send Ping interval
   2. dupchecktimeout: Duplication chack timeout.
   3. conntimeout: Connection timeout.
   4. savenewpeers: Save peer info to local file.
   5. supernode: See Super Mode
   6. p2p See P2P Mode
   7. ntpconfig: NTP related settings
      1. usentp: USE NTP or not.
      2. maxserveruse: How many NTP servers should we use at once.
         First time we will measure lentancy for all NTP server, next time it will use only fastest server.
      3. synctimeinterval: NTP sync interval.
      4. ntptimeout: NTP timeout
      5. servers: NTP server list
10. nexthoptable: Nexthop table。Only static mode use it. See Static Mode
11. resetconninterval: Reset the endpoint for peers. You may need this if that peer use DDNS.
12. peers: Peer info.
    1. nodeid: Node ID.
    2. pubkey: Public key.
    3. pskey: Preshared key. Not implement yet.
    4. endpoint: Peer enddpoint. Will be overwrite if the peer roaming unless static=true.
    5. static: Do not overwrite by roaming and reset the connection every resetconninterval seconds.

Super config

See Super Mode.

Build

No-vpp version

Build Etherguard.

Install Go 1.16

add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
apt-get -y update
apt-get install -y wireguard-tools golang-go build-essential git

Build

make

VPP version

Build Etherguard with VPP integrated.
You need libmemif.so installed to run this version.

Install VPP and libmemif

echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release/ubuntu focal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/99fd.io.list
curl -L https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get -y update
apt-get install -y vpp vpp-plugin-core python3-vpp-api vpp-dbg vpp-dev libmemif libmemif-dev

Build

make vpp