* Gather fresh system info on every management sync stream connect
The engine collected the peer meta once at start and reused the same
Info for every Sync stream reconnect, so a mobile network switch that
redials management kept reporting the old local network addresses.
The peer network range posture check was then evaluated against stale
data until the client restarted.
Sync now takes a gatherer that runs at each stream connect. The
gatherer is cheap: GetInfo plus the cached posture check file results,
kept in the new system.InfoSource, which the engine refreshes whenever
the checks list changes. No process enumeration runs on the reconnect
path.
Also fix the management mock server calling itself instead of SyncFunc.
* Evaluate the login response posture checks before the first sync connect
The engine starts with the checks the login response carried, and the
first sync stream request used to send their evaluated file results.
After moving the gather into InfoSource, the stream opened with an empty
cache and the first sync response did not refill it, because its checks
equal the ones the engine already holds. Desktop peers therefore never
reported process or file posture results.
Seed the cache once before the first connect, where the old gather ran,
so a timed out evaluation still falls through to the address-only info.
* Harden the sync info source against nil callbacks and shared slices
A nil getInfo opens the stream without metadata, as a nil sysInfo did
before. The cached posture results are a copy, so the Info returned by
Refresh cannot alias the snapshot later Current calls report. The
exclusion test asserts the remaining address count so it cannot pass
vacuously on a single-address host.
* Retry a posture check refresh that timed out or failed to sync
The checks list was recorded before the gather ran, so once the gather
timed out or SyncMeta failed, the next sync response carrying the same
list matched the recorded one and nothing retried. The peer kept
reporting the previous posture results until the list changed again.
Record the checks only after the meta reached management, so a failed
cycle is repeated on the next sync response.
* Log the skipped posture refresh, let the mock Sync return errors and deflake the reconnect test
* Drop the nil guard around the sync info callback
* Send the refreshed info on the first sync connect instead of gathering it twice
This introduces a disabled-by-default allow-remote-jobs setting that
controls whether the management server may run jobs (such as debug
bundles) on a peer. The flag propagates end to end: through client
configuration, the daemon SetConfig and Login requests, authentication,
and system info, up to management, where it is stored on the peer and
exposed on the peers API as remote_jobs_allowed. The client refuses any
management-requested job unless the peer has opted in. Because enabling
remote jobs crosses the user-to-root boundary, turning it on requires
privilege, mirroring the SSH-server gate. Administrators can enforce the
setting through MDM policy on both macOS and Windows, and MDM can also
override the debug-bundle upload URL. The change ships policy
documentation and generated profile templates, and adds configuration,
conflict, and enforcement tests covering the opt-in, privilege, and MDM
paths.
Android never reported its local network interfaces, so PeerNetworkRange posture checks could not be evaluated: NetworkAddresses always arrived empty.
net.Interfaces() is unusable on Android 11+ (SELinux blocks netlink), so the addresses are parsed from the interface description the host app already provides via stdnet.ExternalIFaceDiscover. The MAC filter is skipped, mirroring #5906
for iOS, since Android does not expose MACs either and nothing reads Mac server side.
* Wraps syestem info / posture checks into a goroutine with timeout
e.checks = checks is set before doing the SyncMeta,
so if it fails next time isCheckEquals compares true and bypasses
the update. This is to avoid another repeating the 15 seconds hang.
The checks will be synced on reconnect or posture checks changes
push from mgmt.
* Propagate context to OS calls that can leverage its cancellation / timeout
* Distinguish timeout from cancellation in logs
* Dont log twice
* Block on timeout failure and reapply the exclude_ips
* Refactor for complexity
* [client] Filter link-local and multicast from network addresses
Skip IPv6 link-local and multicast addresses when building the peer
network_addresses list on non-iOS platforms, matching the existing iOS
behavior. A flapping NIC's link-local address otherwise churns the peer
meta on every interface up/down.
* [client] Skip engine restart when default route is unchanged
After the network monitor's debounce window, re-check the default next
hop before triggering a client restart. A flapping NIC that returns to
the same default route no longer forces a restart, avoiding redundant
sync stream reconnects and peer meta churn.
* [client] Exclude own overlay address from reported network addresses
The peer's own WireGuard overlay address (v4 and v6) was reported in
network_addresses. As the interface comes and goes during reconnects it
churned the peer meta on the management server. Drop it in
GetInfoWithChecks, matching the IP regardless of prefix length since the
engine knows the overlay address with the network mask while the
interface reports it as a host address.
* [client] Treat missing default route per protocol in next-hop check
A failed GetNextHop lookup is now treated as an absent route (zero
Nexthop) and compared per protocol, instead of forcing a restart. In a
single-stack network the missing IPv6 default route no longer counts as
a change on every debounce, which previously defeated the unchanged-route
check.
* [client] Make next-hop check injectable for network monitor tests
Move the next-hop comparison behind a NetworkMonitor field set by New(),
so tests can supply a stub instead of hitting the host's real default
route. Fixes the Event/MultiEvent tests hanging after the unchanged-route
check was added.
* Revert "[client] Make next-hop check injectable for network monitor tests"
This reverts commit 88a9d96e8f.
* Revert "[client] Treat missing default route per protocol in next-hop check"
This reverts commit 0fb531e4bc.
* Revert "[client] Skip engine restart when default route is unchanged"
This reverts commit a071b55f35.
* fix(client): skip MAC address filter for network addresses on iOS
iOS does not expose hardware (MAC) addresses due to Apple's privacy
restrictions (since iOS 14), causing networkAddresses() to return an
empty list because all interfaces are filtered out by the HardwareAddr
check. Move networkAddresses() to platform-specific files so iOS can
skip this filter.
The iOS GetInfo() function never populated NetworkAddresses, causing
the peer_network_range_check posture check to fail for all iOS clients.
This adds the same networkAddresses() call that macOS, Linux, Windows,
and FreeBSD already use.
Fixes: #3968Fixes: #4657
This PR refactors the system information collection code by moving static system information gathering to a dedicated location and separating platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to improve code organization and maintainability by centralizing static info collection logic.
Key changes:
- Centralized static info collection into dedicated files with platform-specific implementations
- Moved `StaticInfo` struct definition to the main static_info.go file
- Added async initialization function `UpdateStaticInfoAsync()` across all platforms
This PR optimizes the process check time by updating the implementation of getRunningProcesses and introducing new benchmark tests.
Updated getRunningProcesses to use process.Pids() instead of process.Processes()
Added benchmark tests for both the new and the legacy implementations
Benchmark: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/actions/runs/15512741612
todo: evaluate windows optmizations and caching risks
* fix: macos privacy warning
Move GetDesktopUIUserAgent to its own package so UI does not have to
import client/system package that reaches out to broadcasts address.
Thus, fixing the network privacy warnings.
In some operation systems, the sys info contains invalid characters.
In this patch try to keep the original fallback logic but filter out the cases when the character is invalid.
* Change source of serial number in sysInfo function
The serial number returned by the sysInfo function in info_linux.go has been fixed. Previously, it was incorrectly fetched from the Chassis object. Now it is correctly fetched from the Product object. This aligns better with the expected system info retrieval method.
* Fallback to product.Serial in sys info
In case of the chassis is "Default String" or empty then try to use product.serial
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Co-authored-by: Zoltán Papp <zoltan.pmail@gmail.com>
* compile client under freebsd (#1620)
Compile netbird client under freebsd and now support netstack and userspace modes.
Refactoring linux specific code to share same code with FreeBSD, move to *_unix.go files.
Not implemented yet:
Kernel mode not supported
DNS probably does not work yet
Routing also probably does not work yet
SSH support did not tested yet
Lack of test environment for freebsd (dedicated VM for github runners under FreeBSD required)
Lack of tests for freebsd specific code
info reporting need to review and also implement, for example OS reported as GENERIC instead of FreeBSD (lack of FreeBSD icon in management interface)
Lack of proper client setup under FreeBSD
Lack of FreeBSD port/package
* Add DNS routes (#1943)
Given domains are resolved periodically and resolved IPs are replaced with the new ones. Unless the flag keep_route is set to true, then only new ones are added.
This option is helpful if there are long-running connections that might still point to old IP addresses from changed DNS records.
* Add process posture check (#1693)
Introduces a process posture check to validate the existence and active status of specific binaries on peer systems. The check ensures that files are present at specified paths, and that corresponding processes are running. This check supports Linux, Windows, and macOS systems.
Co-authored-by: Evgenii <mail@skillcoder.com>
Co-authored-by: Pascal Fischer <pascal@netbird.io>
Co-authored-by: Zoltan Papp <zoltan.pmail@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Viktor Liu <17948409+lixmal@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bethuel Mmbaga <bethuelmbaga12@gmail.com>
Viktor Liu