cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go

@@ -485,16 +485,21 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 		break
 	}
 
-	composed, err := plan.Compose(catalogue.Rendering{
-		Settings: settings, Generators: gens, Grants: grants, Needed: needed, Ports: ports,
-		Certificate: certificate, Authority: authority, Mesh: private, Names: names,
-		Suffix: overlay.Suffix(), Foundation: foundation, Kept: kept})
+	// Whether this node is adopted (novox/hq ADR 0100): then the found firewall stays in force, and
+	// the declaration carries openings and the mesh's guard in place of a filter.
+	record, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node)
 	if err != nil {
 		return sendable{}, err
 	}
-	// Whether this node is adopted, and what was taken on it, said in every declaration it is
-	// sent from this one place (novox/hq ADR 0100).
-	adoption, err := adoptionOf(ctx, inv, node, plan, composed)
+	composed, err := plan.Compose(catalogue.Rendering{
+		Settings: settings, Generators: gens, Grants: grants, Needed: needed, Ports: ports,
+		Certificate: certificate, Authority: authority, Mesh: private, Names: names,
+		Suffix: overlay.Suffix(), Foundation: foundation, Kept: kept, Adopted: record.Adopted})
+	if err != nil {
+		return sendable{}, err
+	}
+	// And what was taken on it, said in every declaration it is sent from this one place.
+	adoption, err := adoptionOf(ctx, inv, record, plan, composed)
 	if err != nil {
 		return sendable{}, err
 	}

cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go

@@ -41,16 +41,12 @@ func (s sendable) Body() ([]byte, error) {
 }
 
 // adoptionOf is the envelope for a node, nil when it is converged.
-func adoptionOf(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node string,
+func adoptionOf(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, record inventory.Node,
 	plan catalogue.Resolution, composed catalogue.Composed) (*adoptionEnvelope, error) {
-	record, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
 	if !record.Adopted {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
-	taken, err := inv.Taken(ctx, node)
+	taken, err := inv.Taken(ctx, record.Name)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}

internal/catalogue/adoption.go

@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// What an adopted node is declared in place of a filter (novox/hq ADR 0100).
+//
+// On an adopted node the firewall found on the machine stays in force: the mesh loads no table
+// that drops by default or holds an accept. What the mesh needs reachable is declared as
+// openings, which the host converges through the found firewall in its own terms; and the mesh
+// guards its own foundation ports itself, in a table that only refuses.
+
+// AdoptionPrefix is the id prefix of what the mesh declares of its own on an adopted node. It is
+// never a module's, so none of it is ever held as found.
+const AdoptionPrefix = "adoption."
+
+// Where an opening admits from, on the wire.
+const (
+	OpeningFromEverywhere = "everywhere"
+	OpeningFromMesh       = "mesh"
+)
+
+// The two paths a packet reaches a port by: received by the machine, or forwarded to a
+// container that publishes it.
+const (
+	PathIncoming  = "incoming"
+	PathForwarded = "forwarded"
+)
+
+// Guard resources: the refusal-only table, the unit that loads it, and that unit running.
+const (
+	GuardPath = "/etc/mesh/guard.nft"
+	GuardUnit = "mesh-guard.service"
+	// GuardUnitPath is where the unit is written.
+	GuardUnitPath = "/etc/systemd/system/" + GuardUnit
+)
+
+// GuardID, GuardUnitID and GuardRunningID are the guard's resource identities. The installer
+// raises the same three on an adopted genesis, so the first push finds them already there.
+func GuardID() string        { return AdoptionPrefix + "guard" }
+func GuardUnitID() string    { return AdoptionPrefix + "guard-unit" }
+func GuardRunningID() string { return AdoptionPrefix + "guard-running" }
+
+// OpeningID is an opening's resource identity: its protocol, port and path say what it is.
+func OpeningID(protocol string, port int, path string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%sopening-%s-%d-%s", AdoptionPrefix, protocol, port, path)
+}
+
+// Openings are what the mesh needs reachable on an adopted node, from the same inputs as the
+// filter it would load were the node converged, each from where that filter would admit it.
+//
+// `rules` is Filtering's answer — every module's listens, the hub's port, the per-node exposure —
+// and `foundation` is the ports the mesh itself needs, from everywhere. A rule for this machine
+// only opens nothing. `published` maps a machine port a container publishes to the container's
+// port: a published port is forwarded, not received, so its opening names the forwarded path and
+// the port the packet is forwarded to.
+func Openings(rules []Rule, foundation []int, published map[string]map[int]int) []map[string]any {
+	type key struct {
+		protocol string
+		port     int
+	}
+	from := map[key]string{}
+	var order []key
+	widen := func(k key, f string) {
+		was, seen := from[k]
+		if !seen {
+			order = append(order, k)
+		}
+		if !seen || was != OpeningFromEverywhere {
+			from[k] = f
+		}
+	}
+	for _, rule := range rules {
+		switch rule.From {
+		case FromEverywhere:
+			widen(key{rule.Protocol, rule.Port}, OpeningFromEverywhere)
+		case FromMesh:
+			widen(key{rule.Protocol, rule.Port}, OpeningFromMesh)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, port := range foundation {
+		widen(key{"tcp", port}, OpeningFromEverywhere)
+	}
+	sort.Slice(order, func(a, b int) bool {
+		if order[a].port != order[b].port {
+			return order[a].port < order[b].port
+		}
+		return order[a].protocol < order[b].protocol
+	})
+	out := make([]map[string]any, 0, len(order))
+	for _, k := range order {
+		opening := map[string]any{"type": "opening", "port": k.port, "protocol": k.protocol,
+			"from": from[k]}
+		if to, forwarded := published[k.protocol][k.port]; forwarded {
+			opening["id"] = OpeningID(k.protocol, k.port, PathForwarded)
+			opening["path"] = PathForwarded
+			opening["to"] = to
+		} else {
+			opening["id"] = OpeningID(k.protocol, k.port, PathIncoming)
+			opening["path"] = PathIncoming
+		}
+		out = append(out, opening)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// Published is every port the given containers publish on the machine, by protocol and machine
+// port, mapped to the container's own port. A mapping bound to loopback is left out: nothing off
+// the machine reaches it, forwarded or not.
+func Published(resources []map[string]any) map[string]map[int]int {
+	out := map[string]map[int]int{}
+	for _, r := range resources {
+		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "container" {
+			continue
+		}
+		listed, _ := r["ports"].([]any)
+		for _, entry := range listed {
+			written := strings.TrimSpace(fmt.Sprint(entry))
+			protocol := "tcp"
+			if cut := strings.LastIndex(written, "/"); cut >= 0 {
+				protocol = written[cut+1:]
+				written = written[:cut]
+			}
+			parts := strings.Split(written, ":")
+			if len(parts) < 2 {
+				continue
+			}
+			if len(parts) == 3 && (parts[0] == "127.0.0.1" || parts[0] == "localhost" ||
+				parts[0] == "[::1]") {
+				continue
+			}
+			outer, err := strconv.Atoi(parts[len(parts)-2])
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			inner, err := strconv.Atoi(parts[len(parts)-1])
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			if out[protocol] == nil {
+				out[protocol] = map[int]int{}
+			}
+			out[protocol][outer] = inner
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// AsGuard renders the mesh's refusal-only table for the given machine ports.
+//
+// It passes everything by default and holds nothing but a refusal, so it cannot close anything
+// the machine serves; and it is the mesh's own table, so the found firewall reloading does not
+// touch it. It refuses the ports except from the machine itself — its loopback and the container
+// runtime's own networks — and from the private network, known by the interface a packet arrives
+// on and never by its source address. At prerouting, ahead of the runtime's destination
+// translation, so it matches the port the packet was sent to; in the inet family, so both address
+// families.
+//
+// The same text the installer raises on an adopted genesis; a test holds both to it.
+func AsGuard(ports []int) string {
+	sorted := append([]int{}, ports...)
+	sort.Ints(sorted)
+	listed := make([]string, len(sorted))
+	for i, p := range sorted {
+		listed[i] = strconv.Itoa(p)
+	}
+	var b strings.Builder
+	b.WriteString("table inet mesh_guard {}\n")
+	b.WriteString("delete table inet mesh_guard\n")
+	b.WriteString("table inet mesh_guard {\n")
+	b.WriteString("\tchain prerouting {\n")
+	b.WriteString("\t\ttype filter hook prerouting priority raw; policy accept;\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "\t\tiifname != \"lo\" iifname != \"docker0\" iifname != \"br-*\" "+
+		"iifname != \"mesh0\" tcp dport { %s } drop\n", strings.Join(listed, ", "))
+	b.WriteString("\t}\n")
+	b.WriteString("}\n")
+	return b.String()
+}
+
+// GuardUnitText is the unit that loads the guard. Stopping it deletes only its own table: never
+// a flush, which would take the container runtime's rules and the found firewall with it.
+func GuardUnitText() string {
+	return "[Unit]\n" +
+		"Description=The mesh's guard: refuses its own ports from outside (novox/hq ADR 0100)\n" +
+		"After=network-pre.target\n" +
+		"Wants=network-pre.target\n" +
+		"\n" +
+		"[Service]\n" +
+		"Type=oneshot\n" +
+		"RemainAfterExit=yes\n" +
+		"ExecStart=nft -f " + GuardPath + "\n" +
+		"ExecReload=nft -f " + GuardPath + "\n" +
+		"ExecStop=nft delete table inet mesh_guard\n" +
+		"\n" +
+		"[Install]\n" +
+		"WantedBy=multi-user.target\n"
+}
+
+// GuardResources are the guard as three resources of the existing kinds: the table, the unit, and
+// the unit running, restarted when the table changes. Nothing when there is nothing to guard: an
+// empty set is not a table nft loads.
+func GuardResources(ports []int) []map[string]any {
+	if len(ports) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return []map[string]any{
+		{"id": GuardID(), "type": "file", "path": GuardPath, "content": AsGuard(ports),
+			"mode": "0644"},
+		{"id": GuardUnitID(), "type": "file", "path": GuardUnitPath, "content": GuardUnitText(),
+			"mode": "0644"},
+		{"id": GuardRunningID(), "type": "service", "unit": GuardUnit, "state": "running",
+			"boot": "enabled", "restart-on": []any{GuardID(), GuardUnitID()}},
+	}
+}

internal/catalogue/adoption_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0100: on an adopted node the found firewall stays in force. The mesh declares
+// openings where it would have loaded a filter, and guards its own ports in a table that only
+// refuses.
+
+// hub is the private network's generator on the hub: it opens the hub's port from anywhere.
+type hub struct{}
+
+func (hub) Resources(string) ([]map[string]any, bool, error) {
+	return []map[string]any{{"id": "config", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/wireguard/mesh0.conf",
+		"content": "[Interface]\n"}}, true, nil
+}
+func (hub) Listens(string) ([]Listening, error) {
+	return []Listening{{Port: 51820, Protocol: "udp", From: FromEverywhere}}, nil
+}
+
+// anAdoptedAnchor is the control-node's set: the store, the bus, the registry, the private network,
+// a served module and the filter module.
+func anAdoptedAnchor() Resolution {
+	return Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{
+		{Module: "network", Computed: "overlay"},
+		{Module: "postgres", Guards: []int{5432},
+			Listens: []Listening{{Port: 5432, From: FromMesh}},
+			Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-store",
+				"ports": []any{"5432:5432"}}}},
+		{Module: "lavinmq", Guards: []int{15672},
+			Listens: []Listening{{Port: 5671, From: FromMesh}, {Port: 5672, From: FromMesh}},
+			Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-broker",
+				"ports": []any{"5671:5671", "5672:5672", "127.0.0.1:15672:15672"}}}},
+		{Module: "distribution",
+			Listens: []Listening{{Port: 5000, From: FromMesh}},
+			Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "store", "type": "container", "name": "registry",
+				"ports": []any{"5000"}}}},
+		{Module: "hello-web",
+			Listens: []Listening{{Port: 8080, From: FromEverywhere}},
+			Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "hello-web",
+				"ports": []any{"8080"}}}},
+		{Module: "helper", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 9000, From: FromMachine}}},
+		{Module: "nftables", Filtering: &Filtering{Into: "/etc/nftables.conf"},
+			Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "load", "type": "service", "unit": "mesh-filter.service",
+				"state": "running", "restart-on": []any{"filtering"}}}},
+	}}
+}
+
+func anchorRendering(adopted bool) Rendering {
+	return Rendering{
+		Generators: map[string]Generator{"overlay": hub{}},
+		Ports:      map[string]map[int]int{"distribution": {5000: 5000}, "hello-web": {8080: 20001}},
+		Settings: SettingsBy{"distribution": {{From: "node anchor",
+			Values: map[string]any{ExposeSetting: map[string]any{"5000": FromEverywhere}}}}},
+		Mesh:       []string{"10.42.0.1"},
+		Foundation: []int{5671},
+		Adopted:    adopted,
+	}
+}
+
+func byID(resources []map[string]any) map[string]map[string]any {
+	out := map[string]map[string]any{}
+	for _, r := range resources {
+		out[r["id"].(string)] = r
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func TestAnAdoptedNodeIsDeclaredOpeningsFromTheSameInputsAsTheFilter(t *testing.T) {
+	composed, err := anAdoptedAnchor().Compose(anchorRendering(true))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got := byID(composed.Resources)
+	want := map[string]map[string]any{
+		// The hub's port, from anywhere, received.
+		"adoption.opening-udp-51820-incoming": {"port": 51820, "protocol": "udp",
+			"from": "everywhere", "path": "incoming"},
+		// The store's port from the private network only, and forwarded: a container publishes it.
+		"adoption.opening-tcp-5432-forwarded": {"port": 5432, "protocol": "tcp", "from": "mesh",
+			"path": "forwarded", "to": 5432},
+		// The bus from anywhere: a node enrols over it before it has a private address.
+		"adoption.opening-tcp-5671-forwarded": {"port": 5671, "protocol": "tcp",
+			"from": "everywhere", "path": "forwarded", "to": 5671},
+		"adoption.opening-tcp-5672-forwarded": {"port": 5672, "protocol": "tcp", "from": "mesh",
+			"path": "forwarded", "to": 5672},
+		// The registry from anywhere, by its node's exposure setting.
+		"adoption.opening-tcp-5000-forwarded": {"port": 5000, "protocol": "tcp",
+			"from": "everywhere", "path": "forwarded", "to": 5000},
+		// A published port names the machine port and the container port it is forwarded to.
+		"adoption.opening-tcp-20001-forwarded": {"port": 20001, "protocol": "tcp",
+			"from": "everywhere", "path": "forwarded", "to": 8080},
+	}
+	for id, fields := range want {
+		opening, ok := got[id]
+		if !ok {
+			t.Errorf("no %s among %v", id, keys(got))
+			continue
+		}
+		if opening["type"] != "opening" {
+			t.Errorf("%s is a %v", id, opening["type"])
+		}
+		for k, v := range fields {
+			if opening[k] != v {
+				t.Errorf("%s: %s is %v, want %v", id, k, opening[k], v)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for id := range got {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(id, "adoption.opening-") && want[id] == nil {
+			t.Errorf("an opening nothing asked for: %s", id)
+		}
+	}
+	// A port for this machine only opens nothing, and the management port is not opened at all.
+	for id := range got {
+		if strings.Contains(id, "-9000-") || strings.Contains(id, "-15672-") {
+			t.Errorf("%s is opened", id)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// And openings come first, in the order the machine applies them.
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(composed.Resources[0]["id"].(string), "adoption.opening-") {
+		t.Errorf("openings are not first: %v", composed.Resources[0]["id"])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnAdoptedNodeLoadsNoFilterOfTheMeshs(t *testing.T) {
+	composed, err := anAdoptedAnchor().Compose(anchorRendering(true))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, r := range composed.Resources {
+		if r["path"] == "/etc/nftables.conf" || strings.HasPrefix(r["id"].(string), "nftables.") {
+			t.Fatalf("an adopted node is declared the filter module's %v", r["id"])
+		}
+		if content, _ := r["content"].(string); strings.Contains(content, "policy drop") {
+			t.Fatalf("an adopted node is declared a table that drops by default: %v", r["id"])
+		}
+		// Nothing but refusals: the only accept in the guard is its policy.
+		if content, _ := r["content"].(string); r["id"] == GuardID() &&
+			strings.Count(content, "accept") != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("the guard holds an accept:\n%s", content)
+		}
+	}
+	got := byID(composed.Resources)
+	guard := got[GuardID()]
+	if guard == nil || got[GuardUnitID()] == nil || got[GuardRunningID()] == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("no guard: %v", keys(got))
+	}
+	if guard["content"] != AsGuard([]int{5432, 15672}) {
+		t.Fatalf("the guard does not guard the store and the management port:\n%s", guard["content"])
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(got[GuardRunningID()]["restart-on"], []any{GuardID(), GuardUnitID()}) {
+		t.Fatalf("the guard is not reloaded when its table changes: %v", got[GuardRunningID()])
+	}
+	// Nothing of the mesh's own is anybody's to hold.
+	for id, module := range composed.Owner {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(id, AdoptionPrefix) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s is owned by %s", id, module)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAConvergedNodeIsDeclaredItsFilterAndNoOpenings(t *testing.T) {
+	composed, err := anAdoptedAnchor().Compose(anchorRendering(false))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got := byID(composed.Resources)
+	if got["nftables.filtering"] == nil || got["nftables.load"] == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a converged node lost its filter: %v", keys(got))
+	}
+	for id := range got {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(id, AdoptionPrefix) {
+			t.Fatalf("a converged node is declared %s", id)
+		}
+	}
+	plain, err := anAdoptedAnchor().Declaration(anchorRendering(false))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	a, _ := json.Marshal(plain)
+	b, _ := json.Marshal(composed.Resources)
+	if string(a) != string(b) {
+		t.Fatal("Compose and Declaration disagree on a converged node")
+	}
+}
+
+// The table the installer raises and the controller declares, character for character.
+func TestTheGuardIsExactlyThisTable(t *testing.T) {
+	const golden = `table inet mesh_guard {}
+delete table inet mesh_guard
+table inet mesh_guard {
+	chain prerouting {
+		type filter hook prerouting priority raw; policy accept;
+		iifname != "lo" iifname != "docker0" iifname != "br-*" iifname != "mesh0" tcp dport { 5432, 15672 } drop
+	}
+}
+`
+	if got := AsGuard([]int{15672, 5432}); got != golden {
+		t.Fatalf("the guard changed:\n%s", got)
+	}
+	if GuardResources(nil) != nil {
+		t.Fatal("a guard with nothing to guard is an empty set nft refuses to load")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAGuardedPortMustBeAPort(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"postgres","guards":[5432]}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("guards is refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"postgres","guards":[0]}`)); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("guarding port 0 was accepted")
+	}
+}
+
+func keys[V any](m map[string]V) []string {
+	return sortedKeys(m)
+}

internal/catalogue/declaration.go

@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ type Rendering struct {
 	// set, for what a consumer is told, and for what the runtime publishes — and nothing checked
 	// that the three agreed. They are all derived from this.
 	Ports map[string]map[int]int
+
+	// Adopted says the node is adopted (novox/hq ADR 0100): the firewall found on it stays in
+	// force, so no module that loads a filter is declared there, and what the mesh needs
+	// reachable is declared as openings, with its own ports guarded by a table that only refuses.
+	Adopted bool
 }
 
 // machinePort is where a module's port lives on this machine, or the port itself when the mesh has
@@ -257,6 +262,13 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 
 	var out []map[string]any
 	for _, m := range r.Modules {
+		if with.Adopted && m.Filtering != nil {
+			// Nothing of a module that loads a filter, on an adopted node: its table would drop
+			// by default and hold accepts, and the found firewall stays in force. Every resource,
+			// not only the rule set — its service must not run, and a node returned to adopted
+			// stops it by the ordinary removal of what is no longer declared.
+			continue
+		}
 		resources := m.Resources
 
 		// What the mesh computes for this module goes FIRST, before the module's own resources.
@@ -567,9 +579,54 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 			out = append(out, fact)
 		}
 	}
+	if with.Adopted {
+		// First, before anything a module declares: what the mesh needs reachable, then its guard.
+		// The order a machine applies is the order written here.
+		ours := Openings(rules, with.Foundation, Published(out))
+		ours = append(ours, GuardResources(r.guarded(out, owner, with))...)
+		out = append(ours, out...)
+	}
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+// guarded is the machine ports of every guarded port of the modules here: where each module's
+// container publishes it, as composed — or where the machine put it when no container does.
+func (r Resolution) guarded(out []map[string]any, owner map[string]string, with Rendering) []int {
+	seen := map[int]bool{}
+	var ports []int
+	for _, m := range r.Modules {
+		for _, want := range m.Guards {
+			at := with.machinePort(m.Module, want)
+			for _, resource := range out {
+				if owner[fmt.Sprint(resource["id"])] != m.Module ||
+					fmt.Sprint(resource["type"]) != "container" {
+					continue
+				}
+				listed, _ := resource["ports"].([]any)
+				for _, entry := range listed {
+					parts := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(fmt.Sprint(entry)), ":")
+					if len(parts) < 2 {
+						continue
+					}
+					inner, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.SplitN(parts[len(parts)-1], "/", 2)[0])
+					if err != nil || inner != want {
+						continue
+					}
+					if outer, err := strconv.Atoi(parts[len(parts)-2]); err == nil {
+						at = outer
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			if !seen[at] {
+				seen[at] = true
+				ports = append(ports, at)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Ints(ports)
+	return ports
+}
+
 // Contribution is one module telling the answer to a requirement what it needs from it.
 type Contribution struct {
 	// From is the module that said it, so the provider and a person reading the file can tell

internal/catalogue/manifest.go

@@ -346,6 +346,14 @@ type Manifest struct {
 	// that could only see its own ports would write a rule set that closed everything else.
 	Filtering *Filtering `json:"filtering,omitempty"`
 
+	// Guards are ports of this module's the mesh refuses on an adopted node except from the
+	// private network and from the machine itself (novox/hq ADR 0100) — the store's port and the
+	// broker's management port. The ports the software uses; the mesh guards where the machine
+	// publishes them. On an adopted node the found firewall stays in force and the mesh loads no
+	// filter of its own, so this is what keeps them unreachable from outside whatever that
+	// firewall does. Ignored on a converged node, whose derived filter already closes them.
+	Guards []int `json:"guards,omitempty"`
+
 	// Facts are things only the mesh knows, written where this module asks for them.
 	//
 	// **The graph is the control plane's; how a machine uses it is the module's.** The mesh knows
@@ -950,6 +958,12 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 				"%s listens on %d over %q, which is tcp or udp", m.Module, l.Port, p))
 		}
 	}
+	for _, port := range m.Guards {
+		if port < 1 || port > 65535 {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
+				"%s guards port %d, which is not a port", m.Module, port))
+		}
+	}
 	if c := m.Certificate; c != nil {
 		if !strings.HasPrefix(c.Into, "/") {
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(