van-failover is now the sole owner of default-route selection: netplan/NM
profiles get ipv4.never-default so NM's own DHCP/lease renewals stop
reinstalling competing default routes (was racing van-failover's enforce_route
on Starlink's 16s lease). set_profile_metric() also pins never-default on
NM-managed connections it doesn't own the netplan source for (e.g. cellular),
and nm_gateway() falls back to the raw DHCP4 lease's `routers` option since NM
stops populating IP4.GATEWAY once never-default is set.
Probing moved from one shared round to independent per-WAN retry scheduling,
so a flaky WAN retries on its own clock instead of dragging healthy WANs into
extra probes or throttling a failing one to the slow steady-state cadence.
config.json: probe_interval 4->60, fail/ok_threshold 3/2->2/1, single probe
URL — verified live across this reboot (cellular took ~2min after NM reported
"activated" to actually pass traffic; van-failover correctly withheld/
deprioritized the default route until then, then installed it automatically).
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STARLINK_IFACE pointed at the wrong device after the USB hub swap (was
accidentally set to the 5GHz AP dongle's interface). failover/config.json
also hardcoded the old interface name instead of being templated like the
other configs, so deploy.conf changes never reached it — switched it to
@STARLINK_IFACE@ and deploy.sh now renders it.
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.
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The USB hub (5GHz + 2.4GHz AP dongles, Starlink + LAN RTL8153s) moves over
from wayback; MAC-derived wlx*/enx* names travel with it, so hostapd/
networkd/cockpit configs are unchanged. Pi diffs only: failover WAN list
(wlan0 wifi 100, eth0 150, starlink USB 200, Koodo 300), cpu_thermal
sensor, bcm2835 watchdog 10s, no HA DNAT/lease, and deploy.sh drops
battery/lid/heartbeat/ZT-dns. Netplan reference in ap/50-van-wan.yaml.
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