fix: configure firewall before starting wireguard - #6238
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WireGuard was started before the firewall allowed tunnel traffic: connected_tunnel.run() launched wg-go, and only afterwards was InterfaceUp sent to the state machine, which is what adds the tunnel interfaces to the firewall policy. wg-go's first handshake initiation lost that race and failed with EPERM (sendmmsg: operation not permitted), and wireguard-go does not retry an initiation for RekeyTimeout (5s), delaying every desktop connect by ~5 seconds. Measured on Linux: connect time drops from ~6.3s to ~1.4s. Reorder the linux/macos TunTun path to: create tun devices, set routes, send InterfaceUp and await the state machine reply (sent only after the firewall policy is applied), then start wireguard-go. Other paths keep the old order: Windows cannot pre-notify since wg-go creates the wintun adapters itself, netstack's only OS socket targets the already-allowed entry endpoint, and mobile has no configurable firewall.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe tunnel monitor now tracks interface-up notification state, configures the firewall before non-Windows WireGuard startup, and adds Android ICMP interface-binding fallback. ChangesTunnel startup behavior
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to On Linux and macOS, the connection may start WireGuard without confirming that tunnel traffic was added to the firewall, causing startup failures and leaving temporary tunnel devices behind when setup acknowledgement fails. The PR is otherwise mergeable with owner follow-up to require a successful acknowledgement and clean up on failure. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TunnelMonitor
participant Firewall
participant WireGuard
TunnelMonitor->>Firewall: Send InterfaceUp notification
Firewall-->>TunnelMonitor: Acknowledge notification
TunnelMonitor->>WireGuard: Start WireGuard
WireGuard-->>TunnelMonitor: Return startup result
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In `@nym-vpn-core/crates/nym-vpn-lib/src/tunnel_state_machine/tunnel_monitor.rs`:
- Around line 1154-1156: Update the InterfaceUp acknowledgement handling around
REPLY_TIMEOUT to accept only Ok(Ok(())); treat timeout and oneshot receive
failure as startup failures, abort before invoking connected_tunnel.run or
marking interface_up_notified, and clean up any pre-created devices on failure.
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WireGuard was started before the firewall allowed tunnel traffic: connected_tunnel.run() launched wg-go, and only afterwards was InterfaceUp sent to the state machine, which is what adds the tunnel interfaces to the firewall policy. wg-go's first handshake initiation lost that race and failed with EPERM (sendmmsg: operation not permitted), and wireguard-go does not retry an initiation for RekeyTimeout (5s), delaying every desktop connect by ~5 seconds. Measured on Linux: connect time drops from ~6.3s to ~1.4s.
Reorder the linux/macos TunTun path to: create tun devices, set routes, send InterfaceUp and await the state machine reply (sent only after the firewall policy is applied), then start wireguard-go. Other paths keep the old order: Windows cannot pre-notify since wg-go creates the wintun adapters itself, netstack's only OS socket targets the already-allowed entry endpoint, and mobile has no configurable firewall.
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