When the "Broadcast = direct" option is used, broadcast packets are not sent
and forwarded via the Minimum Spanning Tree to all nodes, but are sent directly
to all nodes that can be reached in one hop.
One use for this is to allow running ad-hoc routing protocols, such as OLSR, on
top of tinc.
Apart from the platform specific tun/tap driver, link with the dummy and
raw_socket devices, and optionally with support for UML and VDE devices.
At runtime, the DeviceType option can be used to select which driver to
use.
Because we don't want to keep track of that, and this will cause the node
structure from being relinked into the node tree, which results in myself
pointing to an invalid address.
When a UDP packet was received with an unknown source address/port, and if it
failed a HMAC check against known keys, it could still incorrectly assign that
UDP address to another node. This would temporarily cause outgoing UDP packets
to go to the wrong destination address, until packets from the correct address
were received again.
Before, if MTU probes failed, tinc would stop sending probes until the next
time keys were regenerated (by default, once every hour). Now it continues to
send them every PingInterval, so it recovers faster from temporary failures.
When we got a key request for or from a node we don't know, we disconnected the
node that forwarded us that request. However, especially in TunnelServer mode,
disconnecting does not help. We now ignore such requests, but since there is no
way of telling the original sender that the request was dropped, we now retry
sending REQ_KEY requests when we don't get an ANS_KEY back.
If MTU probing discovered a node was not reachable via UDP, packets for it were
forwarded to the next hop, but always via TCP, even if the next hop was
reachable via UDP. This is now fixed by retrying to send the packet using
send_packet() if the destination is not the same as the nexthop.
This keeps NAT mappings for UDP alive, and will also detect when a node is not
reachable via UDP anymore or if the path MTU is decreasing. Tinc will fall back
to TCP if the node has become unreachable.
If UDP communication is impossible, we stop sending probes, but we retry if it
changes its keys.
We also decouple the UDP and TCP ping mechanisms completely, to ensure tinc
properly detects failure of either method.
This feature is not necessary anymore since we have tools like valgrind today
that can catch stack overflow errors before they make a backtrace in gdb
impossible.
During the path MTU discovery phase, we might not know the maximum MTU yet, but
we do know a safe minimum. If we encounter a packet that is larger than that
the minimum, we now send it via TCP instead to ensure it arrives. We also
allow large packets that we cannot fragment or create ICMP replies for to be
sent via TCP.
We used both rand() and random() in our code. Since it returns an int, we have
to use %x in our format strings instead of %lx. This fixes a crash under
Windows when cross-compiling tinc with a recent version of MinGW.
Although we select() before we call recvfrom(), it sometimes happens that
select() tells us we can read but a subsequent read fails anyway. This is
harmless.
If there is an outstanding MTU probe event for a node which is not reachable
anymore, a UDP packet would be sent to that node, which caused a key request to
be sent to that node, which triggered a NULL pointer dereference. Probes and
other UDP packets to unreachable nodes are now dropped.
First of all, the idea behind the TunnelServer option is to hide all other
nodes from each other, so we shouldn't forward broadcast packets from them
anyway. The other reason is that since edges from other nodes are ignored, the
calculated minimum spanning tree might not be correct, which can result in
routing loops.
Since compression can either grow or shrink a packet, the size of an MTU probe
after decompression might not reflect the real path MTU. Now we use the size
before decompression, which is independent of the compression algorithm, and
substract a safety margin such that the calculated path MTU will be safe even
for packets which grow as much as possible after compression.
Instead of a single, global decryption context, each node has its own context.
However, in send_ans_key(), the global context was initialised. This commit
fixes that and removes the global context completely.
Also only set status.validkey after all checks have been evaluated.
Previously, tinc used a fixed address and port for each node for UDP packet
exchange. The port was the one advertised by that node as its listening port.
However, due to NAT the port might be different. Now, tinc sends a different
session key to each node. This way, the sending node can be determined from
incoming packets by checking the MAC against all session keys. If a match is
found, the address and port for that node are updated.
