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- Replacing outdated server.Config references with types.Config and updating related flag variables (e.g. types.MgmtConfigPath).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.
enhances debugging capabilities by adding support for goroutine, mutex, and block profiling while updating state dump tracking and refining test and release settings.
- Adds pprof-based profiling for goroutine, mutex, and block profiles in the debug bundle.
- Updates state dump functionality by incorporating new status and key fields.
- Adjusts test validations and default flag/retention settings.
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
