In the past we used to send back anything up to 900 bytes of the packet in the ICMPv6 Packet Too Big response, whereas now we seemingly only send back 40 bytes. It turns out that sending back only the 40 bytes of IPv6 headers isn't enough for most operating systems to positively ID the flow to reduce the MTU. This PR updates it so that we can send up to 512 bytes instead (900 is probably excessive) — that should leave plenty of room for any number of IPv6 extension headers and the next protocol headers and some of the payload. This seems to fix the problem in my testing.
Yggdrasil
Introduction
Yggdrasil is an early-stage implementation of a fully end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network. It is lightweight, self-arranging, supported on multiple platforms and allows pretty much any IPv6-capable application to communicate securely with other Yggdrasil nodes. Yggdrasil does not require you to have IPv6 Internet connectivity - it also works over IPv4.
Supported Platforms
Yggdrasil works on a number of platforms, including Linux, macOS, Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, VyOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenWrt.
Please see our Installation
page for more information. You may also find other platform-specific wrappers, scripts
or tools in the contrib
folder.
Building
If you want to build from source, as opposed to installing one of the pre-built packages:
- Install Go (requires Go 1.16 or later)
- Clone this repository
- Run
./build
Note that you can cross-compile for other platforms and architectures by
specifying the GOOS
and GOARCH
environment variables, e.g. GOOS=windows ./build
or GOOS=linux GOARCH=mipsle ./build
.
Running
Generate configuration
To generate static configuration, either generate a HJSON file (human-friendly, complete with comments):
./yggdrasil -genconf > /path/to/yggdrasil.conf
... or generate a plain JSON file (which is easy to manipulate programmatically):
./yggdrasil -genconf -json > /path/to/yggdrasil.conf
You will need to edit the yggdrasil.conf
file to add or remove peers, modify
other configuration such as listen addresses or multicast addresses, etc.
Run Yggdrasil
To run with the generated static configuration:
./yggdrasil -useconffile /path/to/yggdrasil.conf
To run in auto-configuration mode (which will use sane defaults and random keys at each startup, instead of using a static configuration file):
./yggdrasil -autoconf
You will likely need to run Yggdrasil as a privileged user or under sudo
,
unless you have permission to create TUN/TAP adapters. On Linux this can be done
by giving the Yggdrasil binary the CAP_NET_ADMIN
capability.
Documentation
Documentation is available on our website.
Community
Feel free to join us on our Matrix
channel at #yggdrasil:matrix.org
or in the #yggdrasil
IRC channel on libera.chat.
License
This code is released under the terms of the LGPLv3, but with an added exception that was shamelessly taken from godeb. Under certain circumstances, this exception permits distribution of binaries that are (statically or dynamically) linked with this code, without requiring the distribution of Minimal Corresponding Source or Minimal Application Code. For more details, see: LICENSE.