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feat(transport): nylon tunnels over layer 2/3 #105

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Currently, nylon sends all traffic through a WireGuard tunnel.

It would be useful if nylon can send packets over specified interfaces without going through a tunnel. We can send over layer 2, and layer 3 (tun).

We can do this using gvisor's netstack.

This would allow:

  • Higher performance for links over trusted networks (avoid encryption overhead)
  • The use of other tunnels, like V2Ray, AmneziaWG, etc.
  • (Advanced) subnet routing, we can send nylon IP packets directly over the physical interface.

Some implications I thought of so far:

  • We would have to use raw sockets, so there would be new plumbing inside of polyamide
  • We would need an alternative method of monitoring tunnel health (with polyamide, we have a custom header)
  • Need to investigate netstack performance.

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