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Connect a device

The cloud console at app.falconoon.com manages your fabric and account — networks, devices, services, usage, and billing. The fabric CLI connects a machine to that fabric. Your traffic stays end-to-end encrypted (WireGuard) and peer-to-peer; the control plane brokers keys, identity, and network maps but never sees your data.

On the machine you want to connect:

Terminal window
fabric up --network <network-id> --name my-device

fabric up does three things:

  1. Signs you in with the browser device flow (OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant, RFC 8628). It prints a short code and a URL; you approve it from any browser — so it works on a headless server or inside a container with no local browser.
  2. Joins this machine to the network: it generates a WireGuard key, proves the device’s identity, enrolls, and fetches the signed network map. The private key never leaves the machine.
  3. Reports the overlay IP and guides bringing up the tunnel (the afd node agent).

Copy the exact command (with your network id pre-filled) from the console: Networks → open a network → Connect a device.

fabric upfabric login (just authenticate) ≠ console “revoke device” (remove membership). fabric down disconnects the machine while keeping your login and identity.

Open app.falconoon.com:

  • Devices — every connected machine, its overlay IP, online/offline, client version, and the services it publishes.
  • Networks — your private networks and their devices.
  • Dashboard — a fleet overview (networks, devices online, usage, subscription).

Make a locally-running model server or tool reachable across the mesh as a private, addressable service:

Terminal window
fabric serve http://127.0.0.1:11434 --name mac-ollama --kind llm

It becomes mac-ollama.<device>.private, visible under Services in the console and resolvable by peers via a capability. Only metadata (name, kind, node, private name) reaches the cloud — never prompts or outputs.

CommandWhat it does
fabric ipprint this machine’s overlay IP (bare, for scripts)
fabric waitblock until ready (overlay IP + signed netmap) — for CI
fabric nameslist private node/service names from the signed netmap
fabric whois <ip|name>resolve an overlay IP or private name to its owner
fabric statusthis node’s peers, paths, and services
fabric downdisconnect this machine (keeps your login)

See the full CLI reference for every command and flag.