ddidderr 128903c312 feat(gateway): add relay Ethernet datagram helpers
GatewayConnection can now send and receive Ethernet frames over the admitted
relay QUIC connection. Outgoing frames are wrapped in the shared overlay format
with the gateway's assigned room id and peer id; incoming datagrams are ignored
unless they are Ethernet frames for the assigned room from another peer.

The receive helper also parses the payload as an Ethernet frame before exposing
it, which keeps the future AF_PACKET bridge from injecting malformed runt
payloads if the relay path ever misbehaves.

The loopback connector test now verifies the full post-handshake datagram path:
the gateway sends a frame to the test relay, the relay validates the overlay
metadata, and the gateway receives a relay-sent Ethernet frame back.

Test Plan:
- cargo fmt --check
- cargo test --workspace
- cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings

Refs: PLAN.md gateway relay datagram send/receive
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softlan-vpn

Monorepo for a Layer 2 over QUIC LAN party bridge.

Workspace crates

  • lanparty-proto: shared frame format, MAC validation, MTU helpers.
  • lanparty-ctrl: control-plane messages (join/hello/role/version).
  • lanparty-obs: shared diagnostics/logging event models.
  • lanparty-client-core: platform-agnostic client session state.
  • lanparty-client-win: Windows TAP + route/metric handling binary.
  • lanparty-gateway: Linux AF_PACKET gateway binary.
  • lanparty-relay: public QUIC relay binary.

lanparty-proto

Transport-agnostic tunnel contract shared by all binaries:

  • overlay datagram header encoding and decoding
  • Ethernet frame header parsing
  • MAC address parsing and identity validation
  • QUIC datagram to TAP MTU budget helpers

lanparty-ctrl

Reliable control-plane schema shared by the QUIC stream handlers:

  • endpoint hello messages with role, room, MAC, and datagram budget
  • server welcome, reject, peer lifecycle, stats, and disconnect messages
  • room-code, role/MAC, peer-id, and effective-MTU validation
  • length-prefixed JSON control frames for reliable QUIC streams

lanparty-obs

Shared diagnostics and structured logging vocabulary:

  • gateway/relay frame logs with MACs, ethertype, length, peer, and action
  • tunnel counters shared by control messages and runtime diagnostics
  • client connectivity/TAP diagnostics and user-facing status messages

lanparty-relay

Public relay binary and relay-owned room state:

  • QUIC endpoint binding and first-stream hello/welcome admission
  • room admission for clients and gateways
  • one gateway per room, duplicate client MAC rejection, and room limits
  • stable effective room MTU chosen before Ethernet datagrams flow
  • live Ethernet datagram forwarding with no ingress reflection
  • L2 safety filters for jumbo, switch-control, DHCP-server, and IPv6-RA frames
  • peer leave cleanup for room membership and MAC indexes

Build

cargo check --workspace

Relay

cargo run -p lanparty-relay -- --listen 443/udp

--listen accepts either a socket address or a UDP port shorthand such as 443/udp. The relay binds a QUIC endpoint, accepts a control-stream hello, replies with welcome or reject, and forwards live Ethernet QUIC datagrams between accepted peers in the same room. It currently uses a generated self-signed development certificate; production certificate and client trust handling remain future work.

Gateway

cargo run -p lanparty-gateway -- \
  --relay 203.0.113.10:443 \
  --server-name lanparty-relay.local \
  --relay-ca-cert relay-cert.der \
  --room ROOM1 \
  --interface eth0

The gateway currently connects to the relay as role = gateway, completes the control-stream hello/welcome handshake, opens an AF_PACKET socket on the LAN interface, and has relay Ethernet datagram send/receive helpers. The frame bridge loop is not wired yet.

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Description
A simple one-click Layer 2 tunnel software (Windows 11 client) to bridge people who cannot participate in person at a LAN party to the LAN party. And a simple server endpoint (Linux) software that runs physically at the LAN party and bridges the tunneled traffic and the real LAN network.
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