Boot fallback, flowtable devices that come and go, healthz, renames
The boot unit fails closed: if ruleset.nft doesn't load, it loads ruleset-fallback.nft (render.Fallback), saved beside it from the same configuration: nothing new in from external zones, established, the ICMPv6 IPv6 needs and DHCPv6 replies let in, the inside left alone and masqueraded, and the unit marked failed with a critical message. housecarld replaces it when it applies; status, the dashboard and /healthz say while it is in force. no_external_zone now also says the fallback closes everything without an external zone. The boot ruleset has no flowtable: nftables on Debian 13's kernel refuses one naming a device that doesn't exist yet (ppp0 before PPPoE), and with it the whole file. internal/linkwatch listens to rtnetlink link messages; housecarld applies again when a flowtable device appears or comes back as a new interface (by ifindex), under the engine's lock. docs/flowtable.md: what it does, when to use it and when not, how. GET /healthz reports firewall (applied, unconfigured, fallback, missing), changes on probation and the machine's warnings, with 503 unless in force, read at most every five seconds. Renaming a zone, set or service changes what names it in the same change (one history entry, one undo); dynamic sets keep their names. The importer keeps a chain's head in order: once a would-be built-in stays a rule, the ones after it do too, so the maintainer's ICMPv6 accepts stay behind the invalid drop as written. hc settings set --flowtable none empties the list. make test (nft 1.1.3) and make e2e (242 checks, with VLAN sub-interfaces, the fallback and the flowtable) pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -139,6 +139,19 @@ firewall is up even if housecarld can't start. An unconfirmed ruleset is
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never saved there: a reboot during probation brings back the last
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confirmed one.
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It fails closed. A fallback saved beside it (`ruleset-fallback.nft`,
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`render.Fallback`) is loaded if it doesn't: no sets, no flowtable,
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interfaces by name only, so there is little in it to fail. It keeps
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anything new from the external zones out and lets the inside work,
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which is as far as a ruleset can go without knowing the rules; a
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fallback that let everything in would leave a router open on the
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internet, and one that let nothing in would lock out the person who has
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to fix it. The boot ruleset has no flowtable either: nftables refuses a
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flowtable naming a device that doesn't exist yet (on Debian 13's
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kernel), and before the network is up, `ppp0` doesn't. housecarld
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watches the kernel's link messages (internal/linkwatch) and applies
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again when a flowtable device appears, or comes back as a new interface.
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## The drop log
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Rules with logging on, and the policies (Settings), send packets to
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