lan: repurpose onboard eth0 as an internal LAN port on br0

With wifi + Starlink + cellular as uplinks, the onboard GbE earns its keep
as a wired LAN port instead of the metric-150 ethernet WAN: eth0 leaves
netplan/NM (added to van-ap-unmanaged.conf) and joins br0 via networkd
(23-van-lan-eth0.network), so wired clients get 10.42.0.x DHCP/DNS and NAT
exactly like Wi-Fi clients. The eth WAN is gone from van-failover's config.

Cutover notes: delete the old netplan-eth0 / stray eth0 NM profiles, then
nmcli general reload + networkctl reload/reconfigure eth0. NEVER cable this
port (or the USB LAN dongle) back into an upstream LAN — dnsmasq on br0
would serve rogue DHCP there; STP stays off, so don't cable both wired LAN
ports to the same switch either.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Andreas Wrede
2026-07-12 07:44:44 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
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[keyfile]
# The AP wlans (5GHz + 2.4GHz) and the wired LAN port are all owned by
# systemd-networkd/hostapd (bridged into br0), so NetworkManager must not touch them.
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wlxc83a35a4ee55;interface-name:wlxd8ec5e2faa8c;interface-name:enx00e04c331140
# The AP wlans (5GHz + 2.4GHz) and the wired LAN ports (USB dongle + onboard
# eth0) are all owned by systemd-networkd/hostapd (bridged into br0), so
# NetworkManager must not touch them.
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wlxc83a35a4ee55;interface-name:wlxd8ec5e2faa8c;interface-name:enx00e04c331140;interface-name:eth0