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With #6566 we added an external mechanism for getting the default interface, and used it on macOS and iOS (see tailscale/corp#8201). The goal was to be able to get the default physical interface even when using an exit node (in which case the routing table would say that the Tailscale utun* interface is the default). However, the external mechanism turns out to be unreliable in some cases, e.g. when multiple cellular interfaces are present/toggled (I have occasionally gotten my phone into a state where it reports the pdp_ip1 interface as the default, even though it can't actually route traffic). It was observed that `ifconfig -v` on macOS reports an "effective interface" for the Tailscale utn* interface, which seems promising. By examining the ifconfig source code, it turns out that this is done via a SIOCGIFDELEGATE ioctl syscall. Though this is a private API, it appears to have been around for a long time (e.g. it's in the 10.13 xnu release at https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4570.41.2/bsd/net/if_types.h.auto.html) and thus is unlikely to go away. We can thus use this ioctl if the routing table says that a utun* interface is the default, and go back to the simpler mechanism that we had before #6566. Updates #7184 Updates #7188 Signed-off-by: Mihai Parparita <mihai@tailscale.com>
Tailscale
Private WireGuard® networks made easy
Overview
This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code.
Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and
the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows,
macOS, and to varying degrees
on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's
code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.
Other Tailscale repos of note:
- the Android app is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android
- the Synology package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology
- the QNAP package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg
- the Chocolatey packaging is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-chocolatey
For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.
Using
We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.
Other clients
The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.
Building
We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.20. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)
go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}
If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh
instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of
build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your
distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.
Bugs
Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.
Contributing
PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.
We require Developer Certificate of
Origin
Signed-off-by lines in commits.
See git log for our commit message style. It's basically the same as
Go's style.
About Us
Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/graphs/contributors
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android/graphs/contributors
Legal
WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.