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Michal
01a923352f fix(migration): do not emit a NAT translation port for a port list
`set nat destination rule N translation port '16881,6881'` is rejected --
"16881,6881 is not a valid service name" -- because mapping a list of ports
onto a list is ambiguous. `destination port` accepts the same list happily,
which is why this only shows up on the translation side.

All four UniFi port forwards map a port to itself, so translation port was
redundant anyway: omitting it makes VyOS preserve the original port, which is
exactly the intent. It is now emitted only when the forwarded port genuinely
differs, and generation fails loudly rather than producing a config that will
not commit if a differing port LIST ever appears.

Found by loading vyos001's real running config onto the labsim router and
applying the full delta to the candidate config without committing. Worth
noting the delta had already passed a read-through: this one only surfaced by
running it against a real VyOS of the same version.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-16 00:02:21 +01:00
Michal
7f5d3517a3 fix(migration): create the WAN vif before PPPoE references it
`set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 source-interface bond0.51` refers to an interface
that must already exist, and neither firewall has vif 51 -- only 2, 3, 9, 10
and 200 are configured. The commit would have failed, and since the whole delta
commits as one unit, that failure would have taken the entire switch with it at
the worst possible moment.

No address on the vif: PPPoE rides the VLAN and needs no L3 of its own.

Found by checking the running config against the generated delta rather than by
running it. The prod delta has still never been applied to any VyOS, which is
the remaining gap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-15 23:51:13 +01:00
Michal
d56bbf6db0 feat(migration): reversible USG->VyOS switch, proven on the sim
The cutover is a switch, not a migration: unplug the USG, run one command, and
if anything is wrong run the other one and plug it back in. The operator will
have no internet during this and therefore no assistant, so the machinery has
to live on the boxes and the failure paths have to be proven in advance.

vyos-mode-delta.py generates the delta that turns the passive pair into the
gateway. Only one artifact is authored: gateway mode is always derived from
`load unifi.boot` + delta, so there is no inverse to maintain and no drift
between two hand-kept configs. It reuses unifi-to-vyos.py rather than
duplicating it, so what labsim proved and what production gets are one code
path. The PPPoE password is never written into the delta -- it carries a
placeholder the switch substitutes at apply time from /config/wan-secrets --
and generation fails if the real password appears in the output.

Two things the delta covers that the plan had underweighted:

  - VyOS defaults to ACCEPT while the USG has an implicit WAN drop. Migrating
    the port forwards alone would have left the router's own services and the
    whole LAN reachable from the WAN. Added a stateful baseline scoped to the
    WAN interface rather than a global default-action drop, so a mistake there
    cannot lock anyone out over the LAN -- the only way back during a cutover.
  - The old VIPs are NOT at network+254 on the /23 networks; they are
    192.168.9.254, 10.0.9.254 and 10.0.1.254, in the upper half. A delete
    naming a computed address fails quietly and leaves the group holding two
    VIPs. The delta deletes the whole address node instead of guessing.

vyos-unifi-switch runs on the box from /config, which survives image upgrades,
so it works from a local terminal or the JetKVM with no workstation.

Proven on labsim, not assumed:

  - unifi mode restores the previous config BYTE-EXACT (138 lines, diff clean).
  - Auto-revert fires when the commit is not confirmed: 85 static-mappings ->
    0, kea stopped, hostname restored, and uptime plus boot-id UNCHANGED, so
    it reloaded rather than rebooted. That distinction is the whole reason
    `commit-confirm action reload` is a prerequisite.
  - Health-check failure triggers an immediate revert_soft rather than waiting
    out the timer.

Four bugs found while doing it, each of which produced a wrong answer rather
than an error:

  - commit-confirm is TWO steps. `config-mgmt commit_confirm` only arms the
    revert timer; a normal `commit` still has to follow. Arming alone committed
    nothing while reporting success.
  - `sudo sg vyattacfg "config-mgmt ..."` loses the config-session environment,
    so it reported "No configuration changes to commit" against a candidate
    that plainly had 446 added lines.
  - `... | grep -q` under `set -o pipefail` reports FAILURE on a match: grep
    exits early, the producer takes SIGPIPE. Whether it triggers depends on
    output size, so `status` misreported the mode intermittently.
  - `show configuration commands` quotes values, so a fixed-string match for
    `action reload` never matched `action 'reload'`.

CUTOVER.md is the printable runbook: both reachable addresses per box, the
escape hatch first, and the note that PPPoE is the one thing that could not be
tested beforehand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-15 23:30:28 +01:00
Michal
6c4318d3ae feat(migration): reserve every active client at its current address
kea does not inherit UniFi's lease database. At cutover it starts with an empty
view of who holds what, so it can hand an address that is currently in use to a
different device. Reservations are what carry "this device has this address"
across the switch, because they live in config rather than in lease state.

unifi-reserve-all.py creates one per active client, dry run by default. 51
written, 51/51 verified live by reading the records back; the controller now
holds 85 reservations and the generator emits all 85 with unique, valid
hostnames and no duplicate addresses. Active clients with no reservation went
from 48 to 4.

Three guards, each of which caught something real in the dry run:

  - VRRP virtual addresses are excluded. UniFi reports them as ordinary client
    addresses because the firewalls' bond MACs answer for them, and their
    apparent IP flips between the real interface address and the VIP. Without
    this, 192.168.1.254 -- the gateway VIP itself -- would have been given a
    DHCP reservation.
  - The firewalls' own interface MACs are excluded; those are statically
    configured routers, not DHCP clients.
  - Any address claimed by more than one MAC is dropped rather than guessed
    at. This is how the VIPs surfaced in the first place.

Also skipped: addresses already reserved to another MAC, network gateways, and
anything on a network that does not serve DHCP (which excludes the WAN transit
VLANs automatically).

labsim-dhcp-test.sh gained a lease-database flush, and it is not tidiness. Two
findings, both of which first appeared as a PASSING test:

  - Re-running against stale leases, kea gave dynamic addresses to three
    devices that have reservations. The reservations were present and correct
    in kea's own config throughout. Kea saw the reserved address as leased to
    "another client" -- same MAC, different client-id from the earlier boot --
    and allocated elsewhere. Cutover starts with an empty lease database so
    this is a testing artifact, but a reservation is evidently not
    unconditional once leases exist.
  - Removing only dhcp4-leases.csv does nothing: kea's memfile backend keeps
    lease-file-cleanup rotations (.csv.2) and restores from them on start.

The verdict logic no longer takes the first matching lease row. Doing so
reported an hours-old lease as the current answer and scored three failures as
passes, including one where the device had plainly been given a dynamic
address. A MAC with more than one lease is now an explicit failure rather than
a guess.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-15 23:07:07 +01:00
Michal
f36ff4c6e3 feat(migration): pin firewall management NICs and reserve them in UniFi
Prerequisite for the cutover. eth2 on both firewalls was DHCP-served by the USG,
and both addresses (192.168.8.143/.144) sit inside the pool VyOS will serve --
with no reservation for either MAC. After the switch they would renew from kea,
get no mapping, and the management addresses could move. That is the worst
possible moment for the address you SSH to to change, because losing the USG
also means losing internet and any outside help.

On both boxes, driven over the LoT path (bond0.10) so the interface being
changed was never the one carrying the session:

  - eth2 pinned static at its current address, so it no longer depends on DHCP
  - `system name-server eth2` replaced with 10.0.0.194. That setting inherited
    resolvers from the DHCP lease, i.e. the boxes were resolving via the USG and
    would have lost DNS with it. 10.0.0.194 is reachable directly over bond0.10
    and is authoritative for ad.itaz.eu, so internal names now resolve on the
    firewalls -- they did not before.
  - static default route via 192.168.8.1, replacing the one the lease provided.
    Superseded by PPPoE in vyos mode; this keeps unifi mode as it was.

Verified after each: SSH on the pinned address, external and internal DNS, NTP
still synced, VRRP unchanged (vyos001 MASTER, vyos002 BACKUP).

migration/unifi-reserve.py adds the matching UniFi reservations so the
controller cannot lease those addresses to anything else, keeping the
management address identical in both modes. It reads the record back after
writing, because a controller accepting a PUT is not proof it stored what was
asked for, and it is idempotent.

Also noted while doing this: VyOS `commit-confirm` REBOOTS the box if not
confirmed -- "Minutes until reboot, unless 'confirm'" -- it does not roll the
config back in place. For a gateway that means a real outage window, which
changes how the switch script must use it. `config-mgmt commit_confirm -y`
executes without the interactive prompt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-15 22:12:42 +01:00
Michal
44dbd5188c feat(migration): export UniFi config and generate VyOS DHCP+DNS from it
Groundwork for replacing the USG with the VyOS pair without anything on the
network noticing. Three pieces:

migration/unifi-export.py pulls 13 endpoints off the classic controller into
timestamped JSON plus a normalised inventory: 11 networks, 31 DHCP
reservations, 4 port forwards, 2 firewall rules, 0 static routes. Two things
this turned up that a naive export would have lost:

  - 23 of the 31 reservations carry no network_id at all -- UniFi simply does
    not store the binding -- so they are resolved by subnet containment
    instead. Without that, three quarters of the reservations have no subnet
    to be placed in.
  - 30 of the 31 sit INSIDE the DHCP pool, which UniFi's dhcpd tolerates and
    which is flagged as a warning rather than discovered at cutover.

migration/unifi-to-vyos.py turns that inventory into VyOS `set` commands for
DHCP and DNS only -- the services the USG owns that VyOS must reproduce. Not a
general converter. --prod and --sim come from one code path so the config
proven in the sim and the config applied to the firewalls cannot drift. Prod
mode hard-fails if any reservation is missing, since a silent drop is the
failure mode that matters.

DNS is included because the USG resolves for 5 of 6 VLANs today: UniFi hands
out the gateway's own address whenever dhcpd_dns is empty, verified by
labmaster resolving against 192.168.8.1. Replacing the USG without a forwarder
would take DNS away from those VLANs entirely.

labsim/labsim-dhcp-test.sh proves it by booting throwaway VMs with real
production MACs -- the one piece of production config that transplants
verbatim. Safe because ovs-labsim has no physical NIC, so those MACs cannot
reach the real LAN.

Result on VyOS 2026.08 (kea), 4/4: printer1 got 172.31.10.46 from inside the
pool, sonoff-matter got 172.31.11.67 across the /23 boundary, Hubitat got its
out-of-pool .2, and an unreserved MAC got an unreserved address. kea honours
in-pool host reservations -- the open question blocking the cutover.

Supporting changes to labsim:

  - VLAN 10 widened to /23. Every reservation is in LoT and LoT spans 10.0.0.x
    and 10.0.1.x, which a /24 cannot represent.
  - LoT's host leg moved to .3, because 10.0.0.2 is a real reservation
    (Hubitat) that maps onto the host's own address.
  - vlans.conf gained optional masklen and host_octet fields, defaulting to
    24 and 2 so the other five VLANs are untouched.
  - Fixed /etc/network/interfaces hardcoding 255.255.255.0. That file is what
    actually takes effect on these Alpine guests -- cloud-init's
    network-config is ignored -- so any non-/24 VLAN was silently wrong.

Two generator bugs found by VyOS rejecting the output: static-mapping names
are validated as hostnames, so underscores fail; and two devices named
"espressif" plus two named "thebeast" collided into single names, which would
have overwritten one reservation with another's address.

The raw export holds WiFi passphrases and the WAN PPPoE credentials and is
gitignored.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-15 01:33:00 +01:00