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fix(net): harden startup buffering and connection logs - #1861

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Summary

  • Keep historical-sync and connection-control NetEvents on the raw receiver without admitting them to the startup application buffer.
  • Preserve count and byte limits for gossip, publish-result, and DHT events that application consumers need after sync.
  • Keep the two-connections-per-peer limit, but classify its expected redundant-connection denial at debug level without marking network health as failed. Other connection-limit errors remain warnings.
  • Update the internal network and restart architecture trace.

Production impact

A large historical sync can no longer fill the 1,024-event application buffer with request/response control traffic. Nodes retain their database and fail-closed protection for actual live application backlog.

Verification

  • cargo test -p e3-net: 101 unit tests, network isolation, peer-ID recovery, and doc tests passed.
  • A focused regression passed with 100,000 historical-sync response events and a one-event application buffer.
  • The nested libp2p per-peer connection-limit regression passed.
  • pnpm test:integration net --no-prebuild passed for all six peers.
  • cargo fmt, doc sync, invariant, committee, license, and repository lint checks passed.

The local pre-push verifier check could not run because nargo is not installed. This change does not modify circuits or verifiers; CI remains authoritative for that check.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented network control and historical-sync events from consuming application event buffer capacity during startup.
    • Ensured application events continue to be delivered correctly after synchronization completes.
    • Improved handling and diagnostic logging of connection denials caused by per-peer connection limits.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage confirming control-event floods do not block application events.
    • Added validation for nested connection-limit denial errors and event delivery across network channels.

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Walkthrough

The network now separates raw event delivery from application event delivery. NetEventBuffer consumes only application events, while control and historical-sync events remain on the raw channel. The network also classifies selected connection-limit denials as expected outcomes.

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Application event routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Event channel split
crates/net/src/events.rs, crates/net/src/net_interface_handle.rs, crates/net/src/net_interface.rs
NetEventSender routes events to raw and application channels. Interfaces expose both subscriptions and validate application capacity.
Application buffer flow
crates/net/src/lib.rs, crates/net/src/event_buffer/...
Network setup passes the application buffer limit. NetEventBuffer filters non-application events before buffering and forwarding.
Network sender integration
crates/net/src/dialer.rs, crates/net/src/net_interface.rs, crates/ciphernode-builder/src/ciphernode_builder.rs
Dialing, network handlers, and channel-bridge setup use NetEventSender and the configured application-event capacity.
Routing validation and documentation
crates/net/src/event_buffer/tests.rs, agent/CRATES_ARCHITECTURE.md, agent/flow-trace/06_DEACTIVATION_AND_COMPLETION.md
Tests verify that control-event floods do not consume application buffering. Documentation describes the split event paths.

Connection denial handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redundant denial classification
crates/net/src/net_interface.rs
Nested established per-peer connection-limit denials are classified and logged at debug level. Tests distinguish them from pending-incoming denials.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 33487

The PR changes startup buffering and connection-denial classification, but non-redundant connection-limit failures may still be downgraded incorrectly and bursts of filtered control traffic can still exhaust raw event capacity and prevent startup readiness. These concrete risks should be addressed before merging.

Suggested reviewers: ctrlc03

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NetworkInterface
  participant NetEventSender
  participant RawConsumer
  participant NetEventBuffer
  participant ApplicationConsumer
  NetworkInterface->>NetEventSender: publish network event
  NetEventSender->>RawConsumer: deliver all events
  NetEventSender->>NetEventBuffer: deliver application events
  NetEventBuffer->>ApplicationConsumer: forward buffered events after SyncEnded
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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
crates/net/src/net_interface.rs (1)

1516-1535: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise an actual redundant connection.

Use Some(2) to match production. Register two ConnectionEstablished events for one PeerId, then check that the third inbound connection is denied. The current Some(0) setup denies the first connection.

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In `@crates/net/src/net_interface.rs` around lines 1516 - 1535, Update
nested_per_peer_connection_limit_denial_is_expected to use a per-peer limit of
Some(2), register two established connections for the same PeerId, then assert
the third inbound connection is denied and recognized by
is_redundant_peer_connection_denial.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/net/src/event_buffer/handlers.rs`:
- Around line 26-31: The control-event filtering in NetEventBuffer can lag when
the raw channel receives more events than its production capacity; update the
test sync_control_flood_does_not_consume_the_application_buffer in
crates/net/src/event_buffer/tests.rs:133-146 to use the production capacity of
1000 and flood it with the corresponding control-event count. The handler logic
in crates/net/src/event_buffer/handlers.rs:26-31 requires no direct change; it
is the affected filtering path exercised by the test.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/net/src/event_buffer/tests.rs` around lines 133 -
146: The existing regression test capacity masks raw-channel lag and is covered
by the consolidated remediation.

In `@crates/net/src/net_interface.rs`:
- Around line 181-197: Update is_redundant_peer_connection_denial to distinguish
per-peer connection-limit denials using a typed API discriminator instead of
matching Exceeded::to_string() text. If no typed discriminator exists in the
repository-pinned libp2p version, document the pinned display-text dependency
and add a regression test covering the expected wording.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/net/src/net_interface.rs`:
- Around line 1516-1535: Update
nested_per_peer_connection_limit_denial_is_expected to use a per-peer limit of
Some(2), register two established connections for the same PeerId, then assert
the third inbound connection is denied and recognized by
is_redundant_peer_connection_denial.
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crates/net/src/net_interface.rs (1)

1278-1285: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve warnings for non-redundant outbound denials. DialError::Denied can wrap connection-limit failures for pending-outgoing, established-outgoing, established-per-peer, and total limits. Inspect the nested cause and use debug! only for the established-per-peer case. Route other denied outcomes to warn!.

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error-level match around DialError handling so DialError::Denied inspects its
nested cause: use debug! only when the cause is the established-per-peer
connection-limit failure, and route pending-outgoing, established-outgoing,
total-limit, and all other denied outcomes to warn!. Keep DialPeerConditionFalse
and Aborted on debug!.
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In `@crates/net/src/net_interface.rs`:
- Around line 1278-1285: Update the error-level match around DialError handling
so DialError::Denied inspects its nested cause: use debug! only when the cause
is the established-per-peer connection-limit failure, and route
pending-outgoing, established-outgoing, total-limit, and all other denied
outcomes to warn!. Keep DialPeerConditionFalse and Aborted on debug!.

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