To further tighten Nimbus against spam, this PR introduces a global
quota for block requests (shared between peers) as well as a general
per-peer request limit that applies to all libp2p requests.
* apply request quota before decoding message
* for high-bandwidth requests (blocks), apply a shared global quota
which helps manage bandwidth for high-peer setups
* add metrics
When connecting to hosts on shared IP/Port using TLS, SNI must be sent
to allow the remote server to provide the correct TLS certificate.
Bump the `nim-json-rpc` and `nim-websock` dependencies to send SNI ext.
`news` has a few open issues that are not present in `nim-websock`:
1. There is a 1 second delay between each MB of sent data.
2. Cancelling an ongoing `send` makes the entire WebSocket unusable.
3. Control packets do not have priority over ongoing message frames.
Using `news`, there are quite a few of these messages in Geth:
```
Previously seen beacon client is offline. Please ensure it is
operational to follow the chain!
```
It may take quite some time to reconnect when this happens.
Using `nim-websock`, this message still occurs because `eth1_monitor`
reconnects the EL connection when no new blocks occurred for 5 minutes,
but reconnecting is quick and the message is rarer.
When calling `newPayload` on a >1MB payload (can happen post-merge),
`news` splits up that payload into 1MB chunks. The chunks are each sent
individually, though, with `await` in-between. This means that when we
send concurrent `forkChoiceUpdated` calls, that those may end up getting
in-between the `newPayload` chunks, leading to invalid data being sent.
The EL then returns an error message with a `null` `id` entry (as it
could not read the request `id` due to the mangling) and disconnects.
A PR has been submitted to fix this in `news`, and merged into `status`
branch early as this fix is critical for reliable post-merge operation:
https://github.com/Tormund/news/pull/22
* Re-enabled requireAllFields after a fix in nim-json-serialization
The problem was that `Option[T]` fields were not treated as optional
when requireAllFields is set to true. This is now fixed in NJS.
* Add makefile targets for recreating the Jenkins simulation runs
* Fix a discrepancy with the REST spec
Whether new blocks/attestations/etc are produced internally or received
via REST, their journey through the node is the same - to ensure that
they get the same treatment (logging, metrics, processing), this PR
moves the routing to a dedicated module and fixes several small
differences that existed before.
* `xxxValidator` -> `processMessageName` - the processor also was adding
messages to pools, so we want the name to reflect that action
* add missing "sent" metrics for some messages
* document ignore policy better - already-seen messages are not actaully
rebroadcast by libp2p
* skip redundant signature checks for internal validators consistently
This updates `nim-ssz-serialization` to
`3db6cc0f282708aca6c290914488edd832971d61`.
Notable changes:
- Use `uint64` for `GeneralizedIndex`
- Add support for building merkle multiproofs
* Initial commit
* Make `events` API spec compliant.
* Add `Eth-Consensus-Version` in responses.
* Bump chronos to get redirect with headers working.
* Add `is_optimistic` field and handling to syncing RestSyncInfo.
* SSZ `[]` -> `mitem`
* `[]` -> `item`
immutable access via mutable instance cannot rely on template
overloading, and `[]` cannot be a `func` because of special seq handling
in compiler.
Other fixes:
* Fix bit rot in the `make prater-dev-deposit` target.
* Correct content-type in the responses of the Nimbus signing node
* Invalid JSON payload was being sent in the web3signer requests
This PR makes the necessary adjustments to deal with the revamped snappy
API.
In practical terms for nimbus-eth2, there are performance increases to
gossip processing, database reading and writing as well as era file
processing. Exporting `.era` files for example, a snappy-heavy
operation, almost halves in total processing time:
Pre:
```
Average, StdDev, Min, Max, Samples, Test
39.088, 8.735, 23.619, 53.301, 50, tState
237.079, 46.692, 165.620, 355.481, 49, tBlocks
```
Post:
```
All time are ms
Average, StdDev, Min, Max, Samples, Test
25.350, 5.303, 15.351, 41.856, 50, tState
141.238, 24.164, 99.990, 199.329, 49, tBlocks
```