ap: bridge wired LAN port (enx00e04c331140) into br0 with the AP

Add a wired LAN port on the same 10.42.0.0/24 segment as VanLink WiFi by
bridging both into br0. The gateway IP, dnsmasq, and NAT move off the wlan name
onto br0; hostapd (not networkd) enslaves the wlan via bridge=br0, since a
station-mode wlan can't be bridged until it's in AP mode. NM leaves the wired
port unmanaged so networkd owns it. Failover/Starlink (enxd8ec5eeb3512)
untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andreas Wrede
2026-06-30 13:46:03 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent c93997c06d
commit 830ef52641
10 changed files with 84 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Name=wlxc83a35a4ee55
[Link]
RequiredForOnline=no
# No IP here: the AP wlan is a member of br0, which carries the 10.42.0.1 gateway.
# hostapd adds this interface to br0 (bridge=br0) after it puts the radio into AP
# mode — networkd must NOT enslave it (a station-mode wlan can't be bridged), so
# this file only brings the link up.
[Network]
Address=10.42.0.1/24
ConfigureWithoutCarrier=yes
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# LAN bridge: joins the AP Wi-Fi (added by hostapd, once it's in AP mode) and the
# wired LAN port (enx00e04c331140, added by networkd) into one 10.42.0.0/24 segment.
# STP off: only two member ports, no loops, and it avoids the forwarding delay that
# would otherwise stall the first DHCP handshake on a freshly-plugged client.
[NetDev]
Name=br0
Kind=bridge
[Bridge]
STP=no
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# The LAN gateway IP now lives on the bridge, not on the AP wlan (which is just a
# bridge member). ConfigureWithoutCarrier keeps 10.42.0.1 up even before any wired
# device is plugged, exactly as it was on the wlan-only setup.
[Match]
Name=br0
[Link]
RequiredForOnline=no
[Network]
Address=10.42.0.1/24
ConfigureWithoutCarrier=yes
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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
# Wired LAN port: enslaved to br0 so anything plugged in lands on 10.42.0.0/24 and
# gets DHCP/DNS from the same dnsmasq as Wi-Fi clients. NM must leave this device
# alone (see van-ap-unmanaged.conf) for networkd to own it here.
[Match]
Name=enx00e04c331140
[Link]
RequiredForOnline=no
[Network]
Bridge=br0
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@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
interface=wlxc83a35a4ee55
# Put the AP into br0 so Wi-Fi and the wired LAN port share one 10.42.0.0/24 segment.
# hostapd adds the wlan to the bridge after setting AP mode; the bridge itself + its
# wired member + the gateway IP are defined under /etc/systemd/network (2x-van-br0/lan).
bridge=br0
driver=nl80211
ssid=VanLink
country_code=CA
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#!/usr/sbin/nft -f
# van-router NAT — masquerade LAN out whatever the WAN of the moment is
# (anything that is NOT the AP interface: ethernet/Starlink, wifi, future 4G)
# (anything that is NOT the LAN bridge br0: ethernet/Starlink, wifi, future 4G)
table ip van_router_nat
delete table ip van_router_nat
table ip van_router_nat {
chain prerouting {
type nat hook prerouting priority dstnat; policy accept;
# Expose the Home Assistant VM (on libvirt's NAT net, 192.168.122.50) on the
# router's own LAN IP, so VanLink clients reach it at http://10.42.0.1:8123.
# The matching FORWARD accept lives in iptables (re-applied by the libvirt
# /etc/libvirt/hooks/network hook), since libvirt's reject is in that chain.
ip daddr 10.42.0.1 tcp dport 8123 dnat to 192.168.122.50:8123
}
chain postrouting {
type nat hook postrouting priority srcnat; policy accept;
ip saddr 10.42.0.0/24 oifname != "wlxc83a35a4ee55" masquerade
ip saddr 10.42.0.0/24 oifname != "br0" masquerade
# ZeroTier clients reaching the HA VM via the 10.42.0.1:8123 DNAT: masquerade
# them onto virbr0 so HA sees the router (192.168.122.1) and the reply path is
# symmetric, exactly like VanLink clients. Matched by ZT ingress interface so it
# covers direct members (192.168.196.x) AND the LAN subnets routed in behind other
# ZT nodes (192.168.0/6/8/10/13.x). Scoped to virbr0 so ZT<->ZT and ZT->WAN are
# untouched.
iifname "ztuga7c2kh" oifname "virbr0" masquerade
}
}
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
interface=wlxc83a35a4ee55
interface=br0
bind-dynamic
except-interface=lo
domain-needed
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[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wlxc83a35a4ee55
# The AP wlan and the wired LAN port are both owned by systemd-networkd/hostapd
# (bridged into br0), so NetworkManager must not touch either of them.
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wlxc83a35a4ee55;interface-name:enx00e04c331140