* add calculated_remotes
This setting allows us to "guess" what the remote might be for a host
while we wait for the lighthouse response. For networks that hard
designed with in mind, it can help speed up handshake performance, as well as
improve resiliency in the case that all lighthouses are down.
Example:
lighthouse:
# ...
calculated_remotes:
# For any Nebula IPs in 10.0.10.0/24, this will apply the mask and add
# the calculated IP as an initial remote (while we wait for the response
# from the lighthouse). Both CIDRs must have the same mask size.
# For example, Nebula IP 10.0.10.123 will have a calculated remote of
# 192.168.1.123
10.0.10.0/24:
- mask: 192.168.1.0/24
port: 4242
* figure out what is up with this test
* add test
* better logic for sending handshakes
Keep track of the last light of hosts we sent handshakes to. Only log
handshake sent messages if the list has changed.
Remove the test Test_NewHandshakeManagerTrigger because it is faulty and
makes no sense. It relys on the fact that no handshake packets actually
get sent, but with these changes we would send packets now (which it
should!)
* use atomic.Pointer
* cleanup to make it clearer
* fix typo in example
The goal of this work is to send packets between two hosts using more than one
5-tuple. When running on networks like AWS where the underlying network driver
and overlay fabric makes routing, load balancing, and failover decisions based
on the flow hash, this enables more than one flow between pairs of hosts.
Multiport spreads outgoing UDP packets across multiple UDP send ports,
which allows nebula to work around any issues on the underlay network.
Some example issues this could work around:
- UDP rate limits on a per flow basis.
- Partial underlay network failure in which some flows work and some don't
Agreement is done during the handshake to decide if multiport mode will
be used for a given tunnel (one side must have tx_enabled set, the other
side must have rx_enabled set)
NOTE: you cannot use multiport on a host if you are relying on UDP hole
punching to get through a NAT or firewall.
NOTE: Linux only (uses raw sockets to send). Also currently only works
with IPv4 underlay network remotes.
This is implemented by opening a raw socket and sending packets with
a source port that is based on a hash of the overlay source/destiation
port. For ICMP and Nebula metadata packets, we use a random source port.
Example configuration:
multiport:
# This host support sending via multiple UDP ports.
tx_enabled: false
# This host supports receiving packets sent from multiple UDP ports.
rx_enabled: false
# How many UDP ports to use when sending. The lowest source port will be
# listen.port and go up to (but not including) listen.port + tx_ports.
tx_ports: 100
# NOTE: All of your hosts must be running a version of Nebula that supports
# multiport if you want to enable this feature. Older versions of Nebula
# will be confused by these multiport handshakes.
#
# If handshakes are not getting a response, attempt to transmit handshakes
# using random UDP source ports (to get around partial underlay network
# failures).
tx_handshake: false
# How many unresponded handshakes we should send before we attempt to
# send multiport handshakes.
tx_handshake_delay: 2
We have a few small race conditions with creating the HostInfo.ConnectionState
since we add the host info to the pendingHostMap before we set this
field. We can make everything a lot easier if we just add an "init"
function so that we can set this field in the hostinfo before we add it
to the hostmap.
* Add more metrics
This change adds the following counter metrics:
Metrics to track packets dropped at the firewall:
firewall.dropped.local_ip
firewall.dropped.remote_ip
firewall.dropped.no_rule
Metrics to track handshakes attempts that have been initiated and ones
that have timed out (ones that have completed are tracked by the
existing "handshakes" histogram).
handshake_manager.initiated
handshake_manager.timed_out
Metrics to track when cached_packets are dropped because we run out of
buffer space, and how many are sent once the handshake completes.
hostinfo.cached_packets.dropped
hostinfo.cached_packets.sent
This change also notes how many cached packets we have when we log the
final "Handshake received" message for either stage1 for stage2.
* separate incoming/outgoing metrics
* remove "allowed" firewall metrics
We don't need this on the hotpath, they aren't worh it.
* don't need pointers here
There are some subtle race conditions with the previous handshake_ix implementation, mostly around collisions with localIndexId. This change refactors it so that we have a "commit" phase during the handshake where we grab the lock for the hostmap and ensure that we have a unique local index before storing it. We also now avoid using the pending hostmap at all for receiving stage1 packets, since we have everything we need to just store the completed handshake.
Co-authored-by: Nate Brown <nbrown.us@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan Huber <rhuber@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: forfuncsake <drussell@slack-corp.com>
This change fixes all of the known data races that `make smoke-docker-race` finds, except for one.
Most of these races are around the handshake phase for a hostinfo, so we add a RWLock to the hostinfo and Lock during each of the handshake stages.
Some of the other races are around consistently using `atomic` around the `messageCounter` field. To make this harder to mess up, I have renamed the field to `atomicMessageCounter` (I also removed the unnecessary extra pointer deference as we can just point directly to the struct field).
The last remaining data race is around reading `ConnectionInfo.ready`, which is a boolean that is only written to once when the handshake has finished. Due to it being in the hot path for packets and the rare case that this could actually be an issue, holding off on fixing that one for now.
here is the results of `make smoke-docker-race`:
before:
lighthouse1: Found 2 data race(s)
host2: Found 36 data race(s)
host3: Found 17 data race(s)
host4: Found 31 data race(s)
after:
host2: Found 1 data race(s)
host4: Found 1 data race(s)
Fixes: #147Fixes: #226Fixes: #283Fixes: #316
We are currently seeing some cases where we are not deleting entries
correctly from the pending hostmap. I believe this is a case of
an inbound timer tick firing and deleting the Hosts map entry for
a newer handshake attempt than intended, thus leaving the old Indexes
entry orphaned. This change adds some extra checking when deleteing from
the Indexes and Hosts maps to ensure we clean everything up correctly.
This change adds an index based on HostInfo.remoteIndexId. This allows
us to use HostMap.QueryReverseIndex without having to loop over all
entries in the map (this can be a bottleneck under high traffic
lighthouses).
Without this patch, a high traffic lighthouse server receiving recv_error
packets and lots of handshakes, cpu pprof trace can look like this:
flat flat% sum% cum cum%
2000ms 32.26% 32.26% 3040ms 49.03% github.com/slackhq/nebula.(*HostMap).QueryReverseIndex
870ms 14.03% 46.29% 1060ms 17.10% runtime.mapiternext
Which shows 50% of total cpu time is being spent in QueryReverseIndex.
We are currently triggering a fast handshake for static hosts right
inside HandshakeManager.AddVpnIP, but this can actually trigger before
we have generated the handshake packet to use. Instead, we should be
triggering right after we call ixHandshakeStage0 in getOrHandshake
(which generates the handshake packet)
Currently, we wait until the next timer tick to act on the lighthouse's
reply to our HostQuery. This means we can easily add hundreds of
milliseconds of unnecessary delay to the handshake. To fix this, we
can introduce a channel to trigger an outbound handshake without waiting
for the next timer tick.
A few samples of cold ping time between two hosts that require a
lighthouse lookup:
before (v1.2.0):
time=156 ms
time=252 ms
time=12.6 ms
time=301 ms
time=352 ms
time=49.4 ms
time=150 ms
time=13.5 ms
time=8.24 ms
time=161 ms
time=355 ms
after:
time=3.53 ms
time=3.14 ms
time=3.08 ms
time=3.92 ms
time=7.78 ms
time=3.59 ms
time=3.07 ms
time=3.22 ms
time=3.12 ms
time=3.08 ms
time=8.04 ms
I recommend reviewing this PR by looking at each commit individually, as
some refactoring was required that makes the diff a bit confusing when
combined together.
This change add more metrics around "meta" (non "message" type packets).
For lighthouse packets, we also record statistics around the specific
lighthouse meta type.
We don't keep statistics for the "message" type so that we don't slow
down the fast path (and you can just look at metrics on the tun
interface to find that information).
This change adds a new helper, `(*HostInfo).logger()`, that starts a new
logrus.Entry with `vpnIp` and `certName`. We don't use the helper inside
of handshake_ix though since the certificate has not been attached to
the HostInfo yet.
Fixes: #84
This change exposes the current constants we have defined for the handshake
manager as configuration options. This will allow us to test and tweak
with different intervals and wait rotations.
# Handshake Manger Settings
handshakes:
# Total time to try a handshake = sequence of `try_interval * retries`
# With 100ms interval and 20 retries it is 23.5 seconds
try_interval: 100ms
retries: 20
# wait_rotation is the number of handshake attempts to do before starting to try non-local IP addresses
wait_rotation: 5
