migration/vrrp-wan-reconcile.timer

[Unit]
Description=Reconcile WAN with VRRP mastership every 30s

[Timer]
# 30s: fast enough that a dropped transition is a blip rather than an outage,
# slow enough that it is never the thing generating load. It only commits when
# state actually disagrees, so a steady-state tick is two `ip` calls and a grep.
OnBootSec=60
OnUnitActiveSec=30
AccuracySec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
vyos: WAN follows VRRP mastership, rehearsed in labsim The ISP is consumer with one static IP, so "both routers hold WAN" is not available: the 10 gig lease is anchored to a cloned MAC and the PPPoE line to a single credential. The WAN therefore has to move with mastership. Proven end to end in the sim: the secondary was promoted, took the WAN, got a lease, installed a default route, and a LAN VM reached the internet through it (3/3, 9ms). Demoting released it -- link down, no address. Rebooting the master converged correctly too: it came back BACKUP with the WAN disabled while the peer kept it. The rehearsal earned its keep four times over, and none of these were visible from reading the docs: - `transition-script` alone is NOT safe to hang internet on. VyOS delivers it through keepalived-fifo.py, and on one promotion that helper logged NOTHING while Keepalived_vrrp logged all six instances entering MASTER and the built-in notify_master for conntrack-sync ran normally. The result was a router holding every VIP with no WAN -- the 2026-09-02 outage, recreated by the mechanism meant to prevent it. Hence vrrp-wan-reconcile on a 30s timer: the scripts give speed, the timer gives correctness. - The health check must ask REALITY, not a marker. Keying "am I master" on a /run file written by the transition script meant that when the script did not run, the router believed it was backup, passed the check, and kept the VIPs it could not serve. It now asks whether the VIP is actually on the box. - The old address-based check DEADLOCKED this design: may-I-be-master required already having WAN, and only the master gets WAN. That is why vyos002 sat in FAULT for ever -- the safety check had silently removed the redundancy it existed to protect. - script-template must be the FIRST thing a script does. Sourced after an if, an exec and a mkdir it terminated the script inside the source, rc=0, no output: the reconciler reported success having done nothing. Hence the split into vrrp-wan-apply, matching the shape /config/vyos-known-good already uses. Two hazards found and handled rather than discovered in production: - A `configure` session whose process dies leaks a unionfs mount under /opt/vyatta/config/tmp, and one of those holds the commit lock -- after which every commit fails, including the manual one you try to fix it with. A 30s job that can leak one per failure wedges the box on its own, so the reconciler reaps dead sessions before it starts. It cleared 8 on the sim. - Any `save` while a box is master persists the enabled WAN into config.boot, so a reboot would claim the shared MAC regardless of VRRP state. Observed: an ordinary console-apply did exactly this. config.boot must keep `disable` on BOTH routers; the model asserts it and vyos:verify reports it as drift. NOT yet applied to production, and it should not be until the remaining item is settled: a clean, deliberately-triggered failover has been seen via reboot, but `restart vrrp` twice failed to move mastership at all, so the trigger for a planned failover is still unproven. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH 2026-09-02 18:02:58 +01:00			`[Unit]`
			`Description=Reconcile WAN with VRRP mastership every 30s`

			`[Timer]`
			`# 30s: fast enough that a dropped transition is a blip rather than an outage,`
			`# slow enough that it is never the thing generating load. It only commits when`
			# state actually disagrees, so a steady-state tick is two `ip` calls and a grep.
			`OnBootSec=60`
			`OnUnitActiveSec=30`
			`AccuracySec=5`

			`[Install]`
			`WantedBy=timers.target`