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Michal
4efd70c987 vyos: move PPPoE off the config plane onto a gated systemd unit
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PPPoE HA could not work as written, and the reason is structural rather than a
bug: `set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 disable` and `delete` are handled identically
by interfaces_pppoe.py -- both UNLINK /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe0. That path is pppd's
own options file, so the resting state destroyed exactly what the promotion path
needed, and `ppp@pppoe0` restart-looped against it (observed: 47 restarts, zero
sessions at the access concentrator). It also made op-mode `connect interface
pppoe0` unusable, and put every failover behind a priority-322 commit where one
unrelated invalid node fails the whole thing -- which has already taken the
10 gig down once.

pppoe0 is now configured identically and ENABLED on both routers, so the peers
file always exists, and dialling is gated by a drop-in on the unit:

    ConditionPathExists=/run/vrrp-wan/may-dial
    ConditionPathExists=/etc/ppp/peers/pppoe0

/run is tmpfs, so the gate is shut at boot and neither box can dial before VRRP
has decided. That matters more than it first appears: with the node enabled,
interfaces_pppoe.py restarts ppp on EVERY commit touching the pppoe subtree when
the daemon is not running -- so the backup actively tries to dial whenever
anything commits. The gate is the only thing making that a no-op, which is why
vrrp-wan-reconcile now refuses to bless a box whose drop-in is missing: /etc is
per-image, and a VyOS upgrade would otherwise silently remove the protection.

may-dial is a LEASE, not a flag. ConditionPathExists is evaluated at start only
-- it can prevent a dial, never revoke one -- so a reconciler that stops running
while its box is demoted would keep the one ISP session for ever. The reconciler
renews the lease; a new 5s vrrp-wan-guard revokes it, and only ever revokes. It
fired correctly first time: "GUARD: lease stale (81s > 75s)".

Also: remove-then-stop on release (the file's absence blocks a NEW start that a
concurrent commit would trigger); a flap damper, because two routers that both
believe they hold the VIP will both dial and each dial kills the other's session
-- against a real ISP that is how an account gets rate-limited; and a guard on
`cfg` returning empty under commit-lock contention, which had already produced
one spurious "releasing" on a box that needed nothing.

GRACE 90 -> 180. accel-ppp's dead-peer budget is lcp-echo-interval(30) x
failure(3) = 90s, so the old value sat exactly on the boundary: a hard failover
into an AC that does not replace the stale session would fail its own check,
shed the VIPs, and leave both routers in FAULT.

The sim could not have tested any of this. Both routers now get the identical
WAN -- the secondary had none "because two PPPoE clients sharing one credential
is a different failure mode than anything production has", which is backwards:
that IS production. It also left the pair incomparable, ten NAT rules against
none. Safety now comes from resting state, not asymmetry.

Three more things the sim was hiding:
  - the drift check's secondary regex omitted interfaces pppoe/bonding, nat
    source and protocols failover, so it reported "in sync" for a box with no
    WAN at all;
  - the VRRP health-check and transition-script hooks existed on both live VMs
    and in NEITHER generator -- the mechanism under test was pure undetected
    drift;
  - labsim-vyos's only default route was the libvirt-NAT scaffold, so every
    "the LAN still has internet" verdict on it was answered by eth2 rather than
    the WAN. --drop-scaffold applied; the earlier DHCP-failover proof is being
    re-run because of it.

vrrp-wan-install ends the other half of that: the sim's previous proof came from
scripts hand-`sed`-ed in place, so the tested behaviour was not the committed
behaviour. `--check` now makes that a hard failure.

First green run: master holds both WANs, backup released, and the AC reports
exactly ONE session. sim-net-apply.sh check: all four in sync.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-09-05 18:50:16 +01:00
Michal
0481c38e09 labsim: prove the tagged-Management fix for kea's wrong-pool offers
Kea #1117: with dhcp-socket-type raw, a frame tagged for a sub-interface is
also delivered to the parent's AF_PACKET socket, and if the parent serves a
subnet kea answers from it too. Management being the native VLAN on bond0 is
what gives the parent that subnet. One DISCOVER on VLAN 3 produced two OFFERs,
and in the captures here the WRONG one arrives first as often as not -- which
is why this looked device-dependent rather than like a server bug.

labsim-vlan-leak-test.sh reproduces it and scores the SERVER's offers, not the
client's choice; a client picking correctly is how this hid. Fails on the old
shape, passes on the new one across all six LAN VLANs.

Three things the rehearsal caught that reasoning had not:

  - kea keeps its old raw socket. VyOS does not restart it for an interface
    address change, so the first post-fix test failed and looked exactly like
    the fix not working.
  - interface-group LAN names the bare bond0. Moving the address without
    moving the group drops every management session under default-deny.
  - there is no make-before-break. A port always egresses its native VLAN
    untagged, so while VLAN 1 is native the router can send tagged VLAN 1 but
    never receive it -- verified, the ARP landed on bond0 untagged.

What makes the cutover safe anyway is that tagged and untagged Management
coexist, so the firewalls convert one at a time: 0s of VIP downtime, versus
5m30s if both routers go before the switch does. In that state the healthy
BACKUP does NOT take over -- the sync group holds native BACKUP because the
other VLANs still hear the master.

Also fixes two ways the sim was lying. ovs_bond_router compared only the trunk
VLAN list on re-runs, so a VM restart left the bond holding taps that no longer
existed while the real ones sat in the bridge unbonded -- labsim-vyos2 had no
LACP at all. And the tap count included the primary's libvirt-NAT scaffold NIC,
so the primary's bond was skipped outright.

Runbook: migration/MANAGEMENT-VLAN-TAGGED.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-09-02 14:03:44 +01:00
Michal
ad6eb7a9a6 labsim: default-deny firewall policy, proven in the sim
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Policy: internal VLANs reach each other and the internet; the internet
initiates nothing inward. That was already the effect of the IPv4 ruleset, but
built as a blacklist -- default-action accept plus explicit drops per WAN
interface. Identical behaviour right up until a WAN is added, at which point it
is open and nothing looks wrong. This expresses it as a whitelist.

Two findings from the sim, both of which would have been outages in production:

`set` on a rule number is ADDITIVE. The sim already had a rule 10 carrying
inbound/outbound interface constraints; `set ... rule 10 state established`
ANDed onto it, producing a stateful-accept that applied to one interface pair
only. Return traffic from the internet then matched no rule and hit the default
drop, so LAN hosts could reach nothing outbound. The generator now deletes each
filter before rebuilding it, so the code owns the subtree. It is one commit, so
nftables is rebuilt atomically -- there is no window without a firewall.

DHCP lease renewal is unicast UDP to port 68 and conntrack does not reliably
cover it. Without an explicit rule the WAN keeps working until the lease
expires and then dies -- a delayed failure that looks nothing like a firewall
change. Also added a loopback accept for both families, absent from the v6
policy since it went default-deny.

Verified in labsim: inter-VLAN ok, LAN-to-internet ok, internet-to-router
dropped, and internet-to-LAN dropped with the drop counter incrementing by
exactly the packets sent, after routing the test through the router rather than
around it via the hypervisor.

Also extends the drift check to the firewall subtree, which it did not cover --
so it had been reporting "in sync" while that subtree was uncaptured.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-22 22:25:55 +01:00
Michal
7f551081ad labsim: capture BGP, dual WAN and both ISP VMs as code
The sim's routing config existed only as running state on the VMs. It was
applied by hand over SSH, so rebuilding a VM lost the rehearsal and nothing
recorded why any of it was shaped the way it was. The two ISP VMs were not
referenced anywhere in the repo at all.

sim-net-config.py generates all four roles; sim-net-apply.sh applies them over
the serial console, or diffs them against the running VMs. Verified reproducing
live state exactly before committing: primary 40/40 commands, secondary 16/16,
isp-dhcp 19/19, isp-pppoe 21/21.

Carries the reasoning that was previously nowhere: RFC 8212 needing policy in
both directions or the session carries zero prefixes; probe targets that must
not double as system name-servers; default-route-distance 210 rather than
no-default-route, which blanks new_routers and hands the default route to the
backup line; and the WI-8 bootstrap bug that pinned /32s fix.

Dropped a stale `pppoe-server interface eth0` on isp-pppoe (a NIC that does not
exist there) so a green drift check stays meaningful.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMVzWZgiKW2wquf5z8S1yH
2026-08-22 16:26:36 +01:00