commit a1a1abb8c744966731553c7d2078def3b2e26902
parent e9f04931fa098a0feafd1102e7e26e32cd3573ed
Author: Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 23:04:15 +0100
rearrange TODO list
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| M | README.md | | | 2 | ++ |
| M | THOUGHTS.txt | | | 86 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -154,3 +154,5 @@ came close, and no brand did well consistently across all models
tested"
* [A PPPoE Implementation for Linux](https://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als00/2000papers/papers/full_papers/skoll/skoll_html/index.html): "Many DSL service providers use PPPoE for residential broadband Internet access. This paper briefly describes the PPPoE protocol, presents strategies for implementing it under Linux and describes in detail a user-space implementation of a PPPoE client."
+
+* [PPP IPV6CP vs DHCPv6 at AAISP](https://www.revk.uk/2011/01/ppp-ipv6cp-vs-dhcpv6.html)
diff --git a/THOUGHTS.txt b/THOUGHTS.txt
@@ -220,3 +220,89 @@ We can use Python "scapy" to generate dhcp request packets, and Python
'socket' model to send them encapsulated in UDP. Win
It's extremely janky python
+
+Thu Sep 29 15:24:37 BST 2022
+
+Two points to ponder
+
+1) where service config depends on outputs of other services, we
+do that rather ugly "$(cat ${output ....})" construct. Can we improve on
+that? Maybe we could have some kind of tooling to read them as environment
+variables ...
+
+2) we have given no consideration yet to secrets. we want the secrets to
+be not in the store; we want some way of refreshing them when they change
+
+Sat Oct 1 14:24:21 BST 2022
+
+The MAC80211_HWSIM kernel config creates virtual wlan[01] devices
+which hostapd will work with, and a hwsim0 which we can use to monitor
+(though not inject) trafic. Could we use this for wifi tests? How do
+we make the guest hwsim0 visible to the host?
+
+
+Sat Oct 1 18:41:31 BST 2022
+
+virtual serial ports: I struggled with qemu for ages to get this to work.
+You also need the unhelpfully named CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE option in
+kconfig
+
+QEMU_OPTIONS="-nodefaults -chardev socket,path=/tmp/wlan,server=on,wait=off,id=wlan -device virtio-serial-pci -device virtserialport,name=wlan,chardev=wlan"
+
+Sun Oct 2 09:34:48 BST 2022
+
+We could implement the secrets store as a service, then the secrets
+are outputs.
+
+Things we can do in qemu
+
+1) make interface address service that depends on dhcp, instead of
+ being set by it directly
+2) check out restart behaviour of dependent services when depended-on
+ service dies
+3) pppd _creates_ an interface, work out how to fit it into this model
+5) add bridge support for lan
+8) upgrade ppp to something with an ipv6-up-script option, move ppp and pppoe derivations into their own files
+9) get ipv6 address from pppoe
+10) get ipv6 delegation from pppoe and add prefix to lan
+11) support dhcp6 in dnsmasq, and advertise prefix on lan
+12) firewalling and nat
+ - default deny or zero trust?
+14) write secrets holder as a service with outputs
+20) should we check that references to outputs actually correspond with
+ those provided by a service
+
+Things we probably do on hardware
+
+6) writable filesystem (ubifs?)
+7) overlay with squashfs/ubifs - useful? think about workflows for
+how this thing is installed
+16) gl-ar750
+17) mediatek device - gl-mt300 or whatever I have lying around
+18) some kind of arm (banana pi router?)
+19) should we give routeros a hardware ethernet and maybe an l2tp upstream,
+ then we could dogfood the hardware devices. we could run an l2tp service
+ at mythic-beasts, got a /48 there
+
+
+
+https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-fghack.html looks like a handy thing
+we hope we'll never have to use
+
+Sun Oct 2 22:22:17 BST 2022
+
+> make interface address service that depends on dhcp, instead of being set by it directly
+
+We can do this for dhcp, but we can't do it for ppp. Running the ppp service
+creates a ppp[012n] interface and assigns it an ipv4 address and there's not
+a whole lot we can easily do to unbundle that.
+
+So
+
+- the ppp service needs to behave as if it were a "link" service
+- either it *also* needs to behave as an address service, or we could
+ have an address service that subscribes to it and does nothing other than
+ translate output formats
+
+Note regarding that second bullet: at the moment the static address
+service has no outputs anyway!
