FreeBSD: for topology subnet, put tun interface into IFF_BROADCAST mode

For reasons unknown, OpenVPN has always put FreeBSD tun(4) interfaces
into point-to-point mode (IFF_POINTOPOINT), which means "local and
remote address, no on-link subnet".

"--topology subnet" was emulated by adding a subnet-route to the "remote"
(which was just picking a free address from the subnet).

This works well enough for classic tun(4) interfaces that have no
next-hop resolution, and routes pointing to "that fake remote" only
(because all routing is done inside OpenVPN and it does not matter how
packets get there) - but for ovpn(4) interfaces, it breaks iroute setup,
where the route next-hop must be an on-link address.

Thus, change interface to IFF_BROADCAST mode, and get rid of all the
special code needed to "fake" subnet mode.

Tested with tun(4) and ovpn(4) on FreeBSD 14, client and server, and
with tun(4) on FreeBSD 12 and 7.4

To actually work with ovpn(4) / FreeBSD DCO, a followup patch for
kernel ovpn(4) and OpenVPN dco_freebsd.c is needed.

Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Acked-by: Kristof Provost <kprovost@netgate.com>
Message-Id: <20221012145915.25810-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg25396.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>

diff --git a/Changes.rst b/Changes.rst
index dfe5bf08003751f8e7bcb4966d151e8e7d129fc3..fc5a1a853e9f697bfe9b578af667279913a3b54c 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes.rst
+++ b/Changes.rst
@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ User-visible Changes
   been changed to "restart on reception of explicit-exit-notify message".
   If the old behaviour is still desired, ``--remap-usr1 SIGTERM`` can be used.
 
+- FreeBSD tun interfaces with ``--topology subnet`` are now put into real
+  subnet mode (IFF_BROADCAST instead of IFF_POINTOPOINT) - this might upset
+  software that enumerates interfaces, looking for "broadcast capable?" and
+  expecting certain results.  Normal uses should not see any difference.
+
 
 Overview of changes in 2.5
 ==========================

diff --git a/src/openvpn/tun.c b/src/openvpn/tun.c
index ddee49f90d051fd7116c949df37b661ed3235818..a83ec9e6d9d111664641323952aaf46413e517a3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/openvpn/tun.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/tun.c
@@ -1479,43 +1479,23 @@ do_ifconfig_ipv4(struct tuntap *tt, const char *ifname, int tun_mtu,
 
 #elif defined(TARGET_FREEBSD) || defined(TARGET_DRAGONFLY)
 
-    in_addr_t remote_end;           /* for "virtual" subnet topology */
-
     /* example: ifconfig tun2 10.2.0.2 10.2.0.1 mtu 1450 netmask 255.255.255.255 up */
-    if (tun)
+    if (tun)       /* point-to-point tun */
     {
         argv_printf(&argv, "%s %s %s %s mtu %d netmask 255.255.255.255 up",
                     IFCONFIG_PATH, ifname, ifconfig_local,
                     ifconfig_remote_netmask, tun_mtu);
     }
-    else if (tt->type == DEV_TYPE_TUN && tt->topology == TOP_SUBNET)
-    {
-        remote_end = create_arbitrary_remote( tt );
-        argv_printf(&argv, "%s %s %s %s mtu %d netmask %s up", IFCONFIG_PATH,
-                    ifname, ifconfig_local, print_in_addr_t(remote_end, 0, &gc),
-                    tun_mtu, ifconfig_remote_netmask);
-    }
-    else
+    else            /* tun with topology subnet and tap mode (always subnet) */
     {
-        argv_printf(&argv, "%s %s %s netmask %s mtu %d up", IFCONFIG_PATH,
-                    ifname, ifconfig_local, ifconfig_remote_netmask, tun_mtu);
+        int netbits = netmask_to_netbits2(tt->remote_netmask);
+        argv_printf(&argv, "%s %s %s/%d mtu %d up", IFCONFIG_PATH,
+                    ifname, ifconfig_local, netbits, tun_mtu );
     }
 
     argv_msg(M_INFO, &argv);
     openvpn_execve_check(&argv, es, S_FATAL, "FreeBSD ifconfig failed");
 
-    /* Add a network route for the local tun interface */
-    if (!tun && tt->type == DEV_TYPE_TUN && tt->topology == TOP_SUBNET)
-    {
-        struct route_ipv4 r;
-        CLEAR(r);
-        r.flags = RT_DEFINED;
-        r.network = tt->local & tt->remote_netmask;
-        r.netmask = tt->remote_netmask;
-        r.gateway = remote_end;
-        add_route(&r, tt, 0, NULL, es, NULL);
-    }
-
 #elif defined(TARGET_AIX)
     {
         /* AIX ifconfig will complain if it can't find ODM path in env */
@@ -2949,12 +2929,19 @@ open_tun(const char *dev, const char *dev_type, const char *dev_node, struct tun
 
         if (tt->fd >= 0 && tt->type == DEV_TYPE_TUN)
         {
+            /* see "Interface Flags" in ifnet(9) */
             int i = IFF_POINTOPOINT | IFF_MULTICAST;
+            if (tt->topology == TOP_SUBNET)
+            {
+                i = IFF_BROADCAST | IFF_MULTICAST;
+            }
 
             if (ioctl(tt->fd, TUNSIFMODE, &i) < 0)
             {
                 msg(M_WARN | M_ERRNO, "ioctl(TUNSIFMODE)");
             }
+
+            /* multi_af mode for v4+v6, see "tun(4)" */
             i = 1;
             if (ioctl(tt->fd, TUNSIFHEAD, &i) < 0)
             {