feat(server): add open session core

Add `irtt-server` with the deterministic protocol and session engine the
upcoming Tokio runtime will call. `ServerCore::handle_datagram` takes a source
endpoint and the bytes of one datagram and returns the bytes to send back, or
nothing. It performs no I/O and keeps no clock, so every decision is a pure
function of its state and that input apart from drawing session tokens.

Rejection is silence. The protocol defines no error reply, no reset and no
NACK, so malformed, unauthenticated and policy-refused datagrams are discarded
without a response and without disturbing any live session; a client tells
"rejected" from "lost" only by timing out. `ServerError` is reserved for
internal failures on the server's own side, so an inbound `ProtoError` never
surfaces as a server failure.

Open handling authenticates before decoding parameters, so a packet that fails
authentication is discarded without parsing untrusted data and no reply
behavior reveals which stage rejected it. Duration and Interval are accepted
when absent and rejected when explicitly present and not positive, which is
what the presence-aware parameter decode is for. Negotiation currently rewrites
only the protocol version; the restriction knobs the specification describes
are deliberately left for their own slices, with one obvious place to add them.

Sessions are bounded to a finite default. A single unauthenticated datagram
creates one and opens are never deduplicated, so an unbounded table is a
liability rather than a compatibility feature; upstream's absence of session
bounds is explicitly not a target. A full table drops new opens silently and
evicts nothing. No-test opens keep working at capacity because they create no
state.

Session tokens come from the operating system's random source, since a token is
the only thing standing between an off-path attacker and a usable session on an
unauthenticated server. A drawn value that is zero or collides with a live
session is redrawn within a finite budget; there is no predictable fallback,
and a colliding token never overwrites the session that holds it. The reply is
encoded before the session is inserted, so an internal failure cannot leave a
half-created session behind.

Echo and close requests pass admission and are then deliberately ignored: this
slice creates sessions, and lifecycle and receive semantics belong to the
slices that implement them. Tests pin that so a half-implemented lifecycle
cannot appear by accident.
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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ For compatibility questions, the verified spec and black-box observations define
## Architecture
Main boundary (`irtt-server` is planned, not yet implemented):
Main boundary:
> `irtt-proto` — wire semantics shared by client/server. `irtt-client` — client/session behavior. `irtt-server` — server/session behavior and Tokio runtime/orchestration. `irtt-stats` — statistics over client-facing events/results as currently designed. `irtt-cli` — presentation/orchestration.
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Main boundary (`irtt-server` is planned, not yet implemented):
- `AsyncClient`: optional Tokio low-level adapter.
- `ManagedClientTask` / `ManagedClientHandle`: unified Tokio managed driver/control surface.
- `BlockingManagedClient`: synchronous owner using a dedicated current-thread Tokio runtime.
- `irtt-server`: planned; see "Server architecture (`irtt-server`)" below.
- `irtt-server`: exists; see "Server architecture (`irtt-server`)" below.
- `irtt-stats`: cumulative/rolling/finite statistics over client events. No wire/session state machine logic.
- `irtt-cli`: argument parsing, managed orchestration, output, summaries, TUI, diagnostics, and exit behavior. Do not duplicate protocol/session state machines here.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Tokio must remain optional for `irtt-client`; default builds must remain runtime
### Server architecture (`irtt-server`)
`irtt-server` is a planned first-class reusable server crate. It does not exist yet; this section describes the intended boundary for it, not an implemented API.
`irtt-server` is a first-class reusable server crate. It currently contains the deterministic OPEN/session core — packet admission, authentication policy, open negotiation, the bounded session table and open reply construction. ECHO processing, client/server close and session lifetime remain unimplemented, as does the Tokio runtime; see `crates/irtt-server/AGENTS.md`. The rest of this section describes the boundary the crate is built to, including the parts not yet written.
- It shares wire semantics with the client through `irtt-proto` and follows the same clean-room boundary.
- It must **not** depend on `irtt-client` merely to reuse protocol behavior.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Tokio must remain optional for `irtt-client`; default builds must remain runtime
- Runtime/server orchestration belongs around that core and may freely use Tokio for UDP sockets, `recv_from`/`send_to`, IPv4/IPv6 listeners, timers, session expiry, max-duration deadlines, shutdown, bounded control/config channels where useful, and `select!`-style orchestration.
- The CLI server applet, when added, should remain thin orchestration/configuration over reusable `irtt-server`, not contain a second server state machine.
- Resource policy: the server should use bounded session/resource policy. Upstream's observed lack of useful default session/per-peer bounds (see `IRTT_SERVER_PROTOCOL_SPEC.md`) is not an interoperability requirement and must not be reproduced merely for compatibility.
- Testing: once a real `irtt-server` exists, prefer it for normal compliant fake-peer behavior where practical. Keep narrow adversarial/raw peers for intentionally malformed, ambiguous, or non-compliant wire behavior.
- Testing: prefer `irtt-server` for normal compliant fake-peer behavior where practical, as far as its implemented behavior reaches. Keep narrow adversarial/raw peers for intentionally malformed, ambiguous, or non-compliant wire behavior.
## Engineering rules