After first tests it came out, that RoadWarriors with multiple
active Interfaces hat problems with receiving on/ and sending SLPD
packets to specific interfaces.
Here the solution:
- Define SLPDInterface in your tinc.conf (multiple definitions are allowed)
On those interfaces tincd will send and receive SLPD packetes
- You have to have IPv6 support on - link-local addresses configured
- tincd must listen on IPv6 on your SLPDInterfaces
- Define SLPDGroup to something like ff02::42:1
- Define SLPDPort for your group
- Define SLPDInterval to some sane number of seconds (0 is default,
meaning SLPD is disabled, 30 seconds should be enough for average
users)
SLPDGroup and SLPDPort should be unique for your network.
Fingerprinting, message signing is yet to be implemented.
Discovered address should also expire periodically.
Full functionality of tinc mesh relays on having at least one node,
accessible, with known address to which all other nodes must connect
in order to exchange information about other peers.
Sometimes, however, in smaller networks or if two or more peers are
located in the same LAN segment without access to any of the nodes with
known address, there is no way of establishing a functional mesh
without manually changing the configuration.
SLPD addresses this problem utilizing multicast groups and autoconnect.
- Node sends periodically simple message to multicast group
(default 224.0.42.23 port 1655) in this format:
"sLPD 0 1 nodename port publickey"
"0 1" is the "major minior" version of the protocol
- Node listens to the multicast group for messages on all interfaces:
- if the nodename is known and the publickey matches the
node's public key the source address of the packet
will be stored as learned ip address
- at this point setup_outgoing_connection() will be able to
choose the learned ip for connect
Configarion example:
* Roadwarriors: SLPDInterval = 30
* Router on your home network or in your hackerspace:
- It should broadcast only in the direction of the LAN thus you should
set SLPDInterface = eth0 and SLPDInterval = 10
* Defaults:
SLPDGroup = "224.0.42.23"
SLPDPort = 1655
SLPDInterval = 0 (means SLPD is disabled)
The check of the publickey is not implemented yet. IPv6 support
must be implemented. This is the first commit - highly experimental.
When tinc is used in router mode with a TAP device, Ethernet (MAC)
headers are not present in packets flowing over the VPN; it is the
node's responsibility to fill out this header before handing the
packet over to the TAP interface (which expects such headers).
Currently, tinc fills out the destination MAC address of the packet
(otherwise the host would not recognize the packets, and nothing would
work), but it does not fill out the source MAC address. In practice this
doesn't seem to cause any real issues (the host doesn't care about the
source address), but it does look weird when looking at the packets with
a sniffer, and it also result in the following valgrind warning:
==13651== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==13651== at 0x5C4B620: __write_nocancel (syscall-template.S:81)
==13651== by 0x1445AA: write_packet (device.c:183)
==13651== by 0x118C7C: send_packet (net_packet.c:1259)
==13651== by 0x12B70A: route_ipv4 (route.c:443)
==13651== by 0x12D5F8: route (route.c:971)
==13651== by 0x1152BC: receive_packet (net_packet.c:250)
==13651== by 0x117E1B: receive_sptps_record (net_packet.c:904)
==13651== by 0x1309A8: sptps_receive_data_datagram (sptps.c:488)
==13651== by 0x130A90: sptps_receive_data (sptps.c:508)
==13651== by 0x115569: receive_udppacket (net_packet.c:286)
==13651== by 0x119856: handle_incoming_vpn_data (net_packet.c:1499)
==13651== by 0x10F3DA: event_loop (event.c:287)
==13651== Address 0xffeffea3a is on thread 1's stack
==13651== in frame #6, created by receive_sptps_record (net_packet.c:821)
==13651==
This commit fixes the issue by filling out the source MAC address. It is
generated by negating the last byte of the device MAC address, which is
consistent with what route_arp() does.
In addition, this commit stops route_arp() from filling out the Ethernet
header of the packet - this is the responsibility of send_packet(), not
route().
==27135== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
==27135== at 0x57BE17B: BN_num_bits_word (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x57BE205: BN_num_bits (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x57BADF7: BN_div (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x57C48FC: BN_mod_inverse (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x57C3647: BN_BLINDING_create_param (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x5812D44: RSA_setup_blinding (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x58095CB: rsa_get_blinding (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x580A64F: RSA_eay_private_decrypt (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x4E5D9BC: rsa_private_decrypt (rsa.c:97)
==27135== by 0x4E51E1B: metakey_h (protocol_auth.c:524)
==27135== by 0x4E505FD: receive_request (protocol.c:136)
==27135== by 0x4E46002: receive_meta (meta.c:290)
==27135== Uninitialised value was created by a heap allocation
==27135== at 0x4C29F90: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==27135== by 0x575DCD7: CRYPTO_malloc (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x57C24E1: BN_rand (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x57C216F: bn_rand_range (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x57C3630: BN_BLINDING_create_param (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x5812D44: RSA_setup_blinding (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x58095CB: rsa_get_blinding (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x580A64F: RSA_eay_private_decrypt (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
==27135== by 0x4E5D9BC: rsa_private_decrypt (rsa.c:97)
==27135== by 0x4E51E1B: metakey_h (protocol_auth.c:524)
==27135== by 0x4E505FD: receive_request (protocol.c:136)
==27135== by 0x4E46002: receive_meta (meta.c:290)
It is not unusual for tinc to receive SPTPS packets to be relayed to
nodes that just became unreachable, due to state propagation delays in
the metagraph.
Unfortunately, the current code doesn't handle that situation correctly,
and still tries to relay the packet to the unreachable node. This
typically ends up segfaulting.
This commit fixes the issue by checking for reachability before relaying
the packet.
