getlantern / getlantern/unbounded

Add guardrails to prevent control plane messages from leaking into the BroflakeConn

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Description

There's no problems with this currently, but it's a complicated and brittle subtlety which may confound future engineers.

In particular, the rules around passing control plane vs. data plane messages are ambiguous in the router code.

We should implement more formal rules around what kinds of messages can find their way back to workers and why.

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Research direction

Start by tracing the router code and the paths between control-plane or data-plane messages and BroflakeConn workers. Define and document formal message-routing rules, with completion indicated by guardrails that prevent control-plane messages from reaching BroflakeConn.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
networking
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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