With the lazy connection feature, the peer will connect to target peers on-demand. The trigger can be any IP traffic.
This feature can be enabled with the NB_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_LAZY_CONN environment variable.
When the engine receives a network map, it binds a free UDP port for every remote peer, and the system configures WireGuard endpoints for these ports. When traffic appears on a UDP socket, the system removes this listener and starts the peer connection procedure immediately.
Key changes
Fix slow netbird status -d command
Move from engine.go file to conn_mgr.go the peer connection related code
Refactor the iface interface usage and moved interface file next to the engine code
Add new command line flag and UI option to enable feature
The peer.Conn struct is reusable after it has been closed.
Change connection states
Connection states
Idle: The peer is not attempting to establish a connection. This typically means it's in a lazy state or the remote peer is expired.
Connecting: The peer is actively trying to establish a connection. This occurs when the peer has entered an active state and is continuously attempting to reach the remote peer.
Connected: A successful peer-to-peer connection has been established and communication is active.
This PR fixes configuration inconsistencies and updates the store engine type usage throughout the management code. Key changes include:
- Replacing outdated server.Config references with types.Config and updating related flag variables (e.g. types.MgmtConfigPath).
- Converting engine constants (SqliteStoreEngine, PostgresStoreEngine, MysqlStoreEngine) to use types.Engine for consistent type–safety.
- Adjusting various test and migration code paths to correctly reference the new configuration and engine types.
adds NetFlow functionality to track and log network traffic information between peers, with features including:
- Flow logging for TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic
- Integration with connection tracking system
- Resource ID tracking in NetFlow events
- DNS and exit node collection configuration
- Flow API and Redis cache in management
- Memory-based flow storage implementation
- Kernel conntrack counters and userspace counters
- TCP state machine improvements for more accurate tracking
- Migration from net.IP to netip.Addr in the userspace firewall
In the case of user space WireGuard mode, use in-memory proxy between the TURN/Relay connection and the WireGuard Bind. We keep the UDP proxy and eBPF proxy for kernel mode.
The key change is the new wgproxy/bind and the iface/bind/ice_bind changes. Everything else is just to fulfill the dependencies.
This update adds new relay integration for NetBird clients. The new relay is based on web sockets and listens on a single port.
- Adds new relay implementation with websocket with single port relaying mechanism
- refactor peer connection logic, allowing upgrade and downgrade from/to P2P connection
- peer connections are faster since it connects first to relay and then upgrades to P2P
- maintains compatibility with old clients by not using the new relay
- updates infrastructure scripts with new relay service
RequestedGUID is the GUID of the created network adapter, which then influences NLA generation deterministically.
With this change, NetBird should not generate multiple interfaces in every restart on Windows.
* compile client under freebsd (#1620)
Compile netbird client under freebsd and now support netstack and userspace modes.
Refactoring linux specific code to share same code with FreeBSD, move to *_unix.go files.
Not implemented yet:
Kernel mode not supported
DNS probably does not work yet
Routing also probably does not work yet
SSH support did not tested yet
Lack of test environment for freebsd (dedicated VM for github runners under FreeBSD required)
Lack of tests for freebsd specific code
info reporting need to review and also implement, for example OS reported as GENERIC instead of FreeBSD (lack of FreeBSD icon in management interface)
Lack of proper client setup under FreeBSD
Lack of FreeBSD port/package
* Add DNS routes (#1943)
Given domains are resolved periodically and resolved IPs are replaced with the new ones. Unless the flag keep_route is set to true, then only new ones are added.
This option is helpful if there are long-running connections that might still point to old IP addresses from changed DNS records.
* Add process posture check (#1693)
Introduces a process posture check to validate the existence and active status of specific binaries on peer systems. The check ensures that files are present at specified paths, and that corresponding processes are running. This check supports Linux, Windows, and macOS systems.
Co-authored-by: Evgenii <mail@skillcoder.com>
Co-authored-by: Pascal Fischer <pascal@netbird.io>
Co-authored-by: Zoltan Papp <zoltan.pmail@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Viktor Liu <17948409+lixmal@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bethuel Mmbaga <bethuelmbaga12@gmail.com>
* Removejsonfile' from test matrix in workflows
* Remove sqlite to json migration command
* Refactor store engine implementation to remove JSON file store support
The codebase has been refactored to remove support for JSON file store storage engine, with SQLite serving as the default store engine. New functions have been added to handle unsupported store engines and to migrate data from file store to SQLite.
* Remove 'downCmd' from migration commands
* Refactoring
* Add sqlite cleanup
* Remove comment
Because the connWorker are operating with the e.peerConns list we must ensure all workers exited before we modify the content of the e.peerConns list.
If we do not do that the engine will start new connWorkers for the exists ones, and they start connection for the same peers in parallel.
* migrate sqlite store to
generic sql store
* fix conflicts
* init postgres store
* Add postgres store tests
* Refactor postgres store engine name
* fix tests
* Run postgres store tests on linux only
* fix tests
* Refactor
* cascade policy rules on policy deletion
* fix tests
* run postgres cases in new db
* close store connection after tests
* refactor
* using testcontainers
* sync go sum
* remove postgres service
* remove store cleanup
* go mod tidy
* remove env
* use postgres as engine and initialize test store with testcontainer
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Co-authored-by: Maycon Santos <mlsmaycon@gmail.com>
This changes the default behavior for new peers, by requiring the agent to be executed with allow-server-ssh set to true in order for the management configuration to take effect.
This PR implements the following posture checks:
* Agent minimum version allowed
* OS minimum version allowed
* Geo-location based on connection IP
For the geo-based location, we rely on GeoLite2 databases which are free IP geolocation databases. MaxMind was tested and we provide a script that easily allows to download of all necessary files, see infrastructure_files/download-geolite2.sh.
The OpenAPI spec should extensively cover the life cycle of current version posture checks.
Add netstack support for the agent to run it without privileges.
- use interface for tun device
- use common IPC for userspace WireGuard integration
- move udpmux creation and sharedsock to tun layer
* Add gocritic linter
`gocritic` provides diagnostics that check for bugs, performance, and style issues
We disable the following checks:
- commentFormatting
- captLocal
- deprecatedComment
This PR contains many `//nolint:gocritic` to disable `appendAssign`.
With this change we should be able to collect and expose the following histograms:
* `management.updatechannel.create.duration.ms` with `closed` boolean label
* `management.updatechannel.create.duration.micro` with `closed` boolean label
* `management.updatechannel.close.one.duration.ms`
* `management.updatechannel.close.one.duration.micro`
* `management.updatechannel.close.multiple.duration.ms`
* `management.updatechannel.close.multiple.duration.micro`
* `management.updatechannel.close.multiple.channels`
* `management.updatechannel.send.duration.ms` with `found` and `dropped` boolean labels
* `management.updatechannel.send.duration.micro` with `found` and `dropped` boolean labels
* `management.updatechannel.get.all.duration.ms`
* `management.updatechannel.get.all.duration.micro`
* `management.updatechannel.get.all.peers`
