* feat(vpn): hot add/remove WireGuard portal clients without restart
WireGuard portal clients were frozen at instance construction: the
engine slot maps, host key table, and PortalModule state were all
immutable after startup, so any client change required recreating the
whole instance and dropping every established session.
Wire dynamic client management through the existing config-patch
channel (ConfigRpc.patch_config -> apply_config_patch), following the
same pattern as connectors, port forwards, and proxy networks:
- proto: InstanceConfigPatch gains repeated VpnPortalClientPatch
(Add/Remove/Clear by client name)
- engine: slot maps move under an RwLock with a free-index allocator;
add_client/remove_client recycle indices, mark removed slots retired,
and expire active sessions so Core tears down the attached peer via
the regular channel-close path (credential revocation and disconnect
events included); untouched clients keep their sessions intact. The
retired flag is re-checked under the session lock so a datagram that
races with removal cannot resurrect a session
- host: WireGuardPortalHost derives keys deterministically per name
(HKDF), keeps a mutable client table for render_client_config, and
forwards updates to the live engine; changed clients are re-added so
they re-handshake into a fresh generation with the new virtual IP or
groups
- PortalModule: client set, statuses, and session locks become shared
mutable state; run_session resolves clients from the shared map at
accept time; update_clients() validates against a caller-supplied
runtime snapshot. An empty client set is legal in every lifecycle
stage, so clearing all clients never produces a configuration that
fails instance recreation
- config_patch: apply_vpn_portal_client_patches mutates the candidate
TOML; the sub-patch runs last and is deep-validated and hot-applied
before the candidate commits, so a rejected client set leaves neither
the shared model nor the live portal changed, and validation sees the
fully patched state including routes and node IPv4 from the same
request. Rejects patches when no portal is configured or a removed
client does not exist
- cli: vpn-portal add-client/remove-client/clear-clients subcommands
Tests: engine index recycling, module update validation/state/host
notification, TOML patch application, and a three-node integration test
that adds a second WireGuard client live, removes the first while the
second stays online, and asserts rejected patches leave the shared
model unchanged.
* feat(web): reconcile WireGuard portal client edits as hot patches
The web console reconciles desired network config against the running
instance and patches it in place when possible. VPN portal changes were
not part of that: any client edit made the base configs differ, so every
save recreated the instance and dropped all established sessions.
Exclude vpn_portal_config from the base comparison and diff its clients
by name instead. Client add/remove/change now produces
VpnPortalClientPatch entries (removals first, changed clients as
remove+add) applied through the existing PatchConfig channel. Listener
identity changes (address or private key) and enabling or disabling the
portal still fall back to a full instance recreate, since those change
the listener lifecycle.
* feat(web/gui): map portal client patches to frontend RPC backends
Extend the RemoteClient seam with add/remove/clear VPN portal client
operations so frontend hosts can drive the same PatchConfig channel as
the CLI. There is deliberately no dedicated editing UI: the config form
stays the single editing surface (aligned with port forwards), and
these methods exist for programmatic and future use.
- web console: JSON proxy-rpc to ConfigRpcService.patch_config with
VpnPortalClientPatch entries (pbjson string enum actions)
- desktop GUI: patch_vpn_portal_clients tauri command forwarding the
same patch through the typed ConfigRpc client
* feat(peer): support protocol-agnostic attached peers
Add locally attached peers backed by independent, peer-level portable
managers and authenticated in-process ring connections. Carry trusted
connection provenance through packet admission so attached relay
privileges cannot be forged through packet headers.
Let every peer manager own ACL loading, sanitized policy updates, route
refresh, and runtime cleanup. In Secure Mode, grant attached identities
ephemeral credentials instead of sharing administrator and group secrets.
* feat(vpn): add reusable attached-peer portal runtime
Add a protocol-neutral portal runtime that converts authenticated client
sessions into attached EasyTier peers. Own per-client generations,
status, packet forwarding, address translation, and peer cleanup without
knowing the transport protocol.
Add transactional IPv4 source and destination rewriting with correct
IPv4, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and quoted-packet checksum updates. Keep the old
production portal path temporarily active until the WireGuard adapter is
migrated in the next change.
* feat(wireguard): attach named clients through peer portal
Replace the monolithic WireGuard portal with a native adapter that owns
key derivation, UDP demultiplexing, reauthentication, roaming, and
bounded per-client packet queues. Hand authenticated sessions to the
generic portal runtime for peer lifecycle and IPv4 translation.
Move portal configuration into the core instance model, require a
dedicated server key, and preserve existing listener, CLI, and runtime
configuration behavior. Reject runtime address conflicts before
publishing shared configuration.
* feat(vpn): expose per-client portal status
Project configured clients and their runtime state through the portal
RPC, including generated client configuration, listener, peer identity,
endpoint, tunnel address, ACL groups, and errors. Keep private client
configuration out of the broad instance-info response and expose the
explicit RPC through the CLI and Tauri bridge.
* feat(vpn): add portal configuration to web clients
Expose WireGuard portal listener, key, client, ACL group, and runtime
status fields in the shared frontend library, Web dashboard, and Tauri
client. Preserve UUID and uint64 values across protobuf JSON
boundaries, keep dynamic client editor rows stable, and document the
portal workflow.
* test(vpn): cover multi-client and roaming WireGuard portals
Add two three-node integration tests for the WireGuard VPN portal.
The multi-client test connects two kernel WireGuard clients from
separate network namespaces, verifies per-client connectivity to mesh
nodes, and exercises cross-client traffic that runs the IPv4 source
and destination translation in both directions. A TCP echo exchange
through the portal additionally covers the TCP pseudo-header checksum
rewrite path that ICMP-only ping tests miss, and portal status
snapshots must report both clients online with distinct peer ids and
correctly learned tunnel addresses.
The roaming test swaps the client namespace address (delete the old
address, then add the new one) so the kernel WireGuard source cache is
invalidated and the client keeps sending under the same session from
the new source, exactly like a real network change. The portal must
update the client endpoint on the same peer id via the data path
(same generation, no re-handshake, no detach/reconnect) while
connectivity to mesh nodes is preserved.
Supporting changes: run_wireguard_client now takes an interface name,
and the shared namespace topology gains net_f (10.1.2.5) on the portal
bridge for the second client.
Summary
Reconcile the Android system VPN after the GUI has finished initializing the EasyTier core.
Retry reconciliation while network information or the virtual IPv4 address is not ready yet.
Serialize reconciliation work and de-duplicate concurrent VPN permission requests.
Root cause
On Android, the network instance can report that it has started before collectNetworkInfo exposes the instance state and virtual IPv4 address. The previous startup path treated that temporary state as a terminal failure, stopped VPN setup, and relied on another event to retry it. If no later event arrived, peers could connect successfully while the Android VpnService remained inactive until the user stopped and started the network again.
PR #1628 added polling for the DHCP-specific empty-IP case. The same race can occur earlier, while network information is still unavailable, and can also affect static-IP configurations.
Create easytier-core as the portable owner of configuration,
connectivity, tunnels, peer and routing state, gateways, management,
the data plane, and instance lifecycle. Keep operating-system
integration, native protocol engines, process startup, and presentation
in easytier behind explicit Host capability adapters.
Create easytier-proto to own schemas, generated RPC types, descriptors,
and feature-scoped protocol slices. Remove runtime protobuf reflection
from core while preserving unknown route-peer fields across forwarding.
Normalize instance construction through CoreInstance, CoreHostAdapters,
CoreProcessRuntime, and InstanceManager. Make the runtime config store
the only authoritative mutable configuration after startup.
Move the portable TCP/UDP data plane into core and extract a generic
OperationBroker for completion, cancellation, disposal, and capacity
accounting. Expose the session-based FFI v2 completion API and keep the
WASI guest ABI, wire schemas, and adapters with core.
Migrate CLI, GUI, web, FFI, Android JNI, OHOS, uptime, and mobile
consumers to the shared manager and core state. Add explicit user/web
config ownership and revision-aware web reconciliation.
Preserve configuration, wire, and management behavior while fixing
regressions discovered by the full platform and integration matrix:
- inherit advertised relay capabilities in foreign networks;
- refresh OSPF peer state immediately after runtime config changes;
- restore CLI GlobalCtx event output without forcing GUI logging;
- retain legacy encryption names and standalone RPC tunnel metadata;
- restore ICMP host composition and fragmented UDP handling;
- use portable 64-bit atomics on 32-bit MIPS targets; and
- retain discarded operations until late cancellation completes.
Validate the refactor across 45 GitHub checks, including Linux, macOS,
Windows, FreeBSD, web, GUI, Android, OHOS, feature profiles, and
three-node and subnet-proxy integration tests.
BREAKING CHANGE: internal Rust module paths are not preserved. Legacy
native data-plane APIs are replaced by the session-based FFI v2 API.
The dedicated Android data-plane wrapper is removed.
Fix web/frontend compat bugs in managed config & runtime status
- Preserve [[peer]].peer_public_key when TOML configs round-trip
through the web/managed NetworkConfig path
- Keep old peer_urls clients working while adding structured peer
metadata for new clients
- Make frontend protobuf JSON normalization preserve omitted-field
semantics instead of turning missing data into misleading defaults
- Harden runtime status rendering against omitted or string-encoded
backend fields
- Expose peer-route feature flags in the web status UI
* refactor(web): use generated proto network types
* fix(core): preserve dumped config flags
* test(web): cover config flag save paths
* fix(ci): use system protoc before frontend codegen
* fix(ci): serialize frontend-lib builds
The GUI exposed three networking modes: public server, manual, and standalone. In practice EasyTier does not have a server/client role distinction here. Those options only mapped to different peer bootstrap shapes, which made the product model misleading and pushed users toward a non-existent "public server" concept.
This change rewrites the shared configuration UX around initial nodes. Users now add or remove one or more initial node URLs directly, and the UI explains that EasyTier networking works like plugging in a cable: once a node connects to one or more existing nodes, it can join the mesh. Initial nodes may be self-hosted or shared by others.
To preserve compatibility, the frontend keeps the legacy fields and adds normalization helpers in the shared NetworkConfig layer. Old configs are read as initial_node_urls, while saves, runs, validation, config generation, and persisted GUI config sync still denormalize back into the current backend shape: zero initial nodes -> Standalone, one -> PublicServer, many -> Manual. This avoids any proto or backend API change while making old saved configs and imported TOML files load cleanly in the new UI.
Code changes:
- add initial_node_urls plus normalize/denormalize helpers in the shared frontend NetworkConfig model
- remove the mode switch and public-server/manual specific inputs from the shared Config component and replace them with a single initial-node list plus explanatory copy
- update Chinese and English locale strings for the new terminology
- normalize configs received from GUI/web backends and denormalize them before outbound API calls
- normalize GUI save-config events before storing them in localStorage so legacy payloads remain editable under the new model
Implement end-to-end encryption for core-web connections using the
Noise protocol framework with the following changes:
Client-side (easytier/src/web_client/):
- Add security.rs module with Noise handshake implementation
- Add upgrade_client_tunnel() for client-side handshake
- Add Noise frame encryption/decryption via TunnelFilter
- Integrate GetFeature RPC for capability negotiation
- Support secure_mode option to enforce encrypted connections
- Handle graceful fallback for backward compatibility
Server-side (easytier-web/):
- Accept Noise handshake in client_manager
- Expose encryption support via GetFeature RPC
The implementation uses Noise_NN_25519_ChaChaPoly_SHA256 pattern for
encryption without authentication. Provides backward compatibility
with automatic fallback to plaintext connections.
support faketcp to avoid tcp-over-tcp problem.
linux/macos/windows are supported.
better to be used in internet env, the maximum
performance is majorly limited by windivert/raw socket.
This PR fundamentally restructures the EasyTier GUI, introducing support for service mode and remote mode, transforming it from a simple desktop application into a powerful network management terminal. This change allows users to persistently run the EasyTier core as a background service or remotely manage multiple EasyTier instances, greatly improving deployment flexibility and manageability.
* refactor(gui): refactor gui to use RemoteClient trait and RemoteManagement component
* feat(gui): Add network config saving and refactor RemoteManagement
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