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Patroneos provides a layer of protection for EOSIO nodes designed to protect against some of the basic Denial of Service attack vectors. It runs in a simple configuration and a more advanced configuration.

Building

To build patroneos, you can simply clone the repository, and then run ./build.sh from within the repository directory.

git clone https://github.com/EOSIO/patroneos
cd patroneos
./build.sh

You can also target a specific branch/tag/release. In the below example, we are building Patroneos v1.1.0.

git clone -b 1.1.0 https://github.com/EOSIO/patroneos
cd patroneos
./build.sh

You can confirm the version by using patroneosd -v which will output the Branch/Tag/Release, Git Commit ID, and Build Date/Time.

Simple Configuration

The simple configuration is designed to simply drop requests that are invalid or could cause unnecessary load on the node. This is done by running the request through a set of middleware (described below) that apply rules to the request. If a request passes all the middleware, it is forwarded to the node with the response returned to the user. Otherwise, an error code and the failure condition is returned to the user.

Successful request data flow
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User --> Patroneos --> Nodeos --> Patroneos --> User
Failed request data flow
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User --> Patroneos --> User

To setup Patroneos in the simple configuration, a user just needs nodeos running, a compiled patroneos binary, and a correct config.json. See Basic Patroneos Setup for a walkthrough of setting up and using Patroneos.

Middleware Verification Layer

Advanced Configuration

The advanced configuration works in coordination with fail2ban to ban users that repeatedly submit blocked requests. It requires a reverse proxy, patroneos running in fail2ban-relay mode, fail2ban, patroneos running in filter mode, and nodeos.

The advanced configuration is defined more in depth at Advanced Patroneos Setup

Data Flow Diagram

Data Flow Diagram