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jackos1998 87cdfdbd97 nixos/portcullis: Bring up 10G on the home hi VLAN
portcullis is wired over 10G to fergal, which uplinks to jim's spare
SFP+ port. That uplink is untagged VLAN 1, so hi is carried tagged on a
lan-hi VLAN interface: a static assignment at 192.168.68.41 / ::6:1,
resolving through the router VIPs like any other hi client. Its gateway
route outranks the DHCP default, making 10G the preferred path while the
2.5G bootstrap stays as a fallback. Deploy now targets that address.

The hi MTU goes on the .network rather than the .link, since a .link is
only applied at udev device-add -- with it there, et10g-0 stays at 1500
across a switch and lan-hi cannot take 9000.

jim's sfp-spare was tagged into hi and lo out of band to match.

fergal turns out to belong with portcullis rather than to the home
fabric -- it goes to Nikhef when the box does -- so its documentation
moves to the colony site, leaving home/switches.md a short section on
what it borrows from that fabric.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 01:30:50 +01:00

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# colony
The hosted dedicated server in Amsterdam (`ams1`) and the public-facing half of
the boxes: almost everything reachable from the internet lives here.
- **Internal domain:** `ams1.int.nul.ie` (`lib.my.c.colony.domain`)
- **Public domain:** `nul.ie` — public services are published as `*.nul.ie`
- **Source:** [`nixos/boxes/colony/`](../../../nixos/boxes/colony)
## Networking
`colony` separates the host, VMs, `shill` containers and `whale2` OCI workloads onto dedicated
networks behind [`estuary`](estuary.md), which terminates the public addressing. The canonical
prefixes and routing overview are in the [`colony` section of networking.md](../../networking.md#colony).
## Boxes
| Box | Role |
|---|---|
| [`colony`](colony.md) | Physical VM host (AMD, KVM, LVM-thin, `borgthin` backups → rsync.net) |
| [`estuary`](estuary.md) | Edge router: WAN, firewall/NAT, DNS, BGP (AS211024), WireGuard |
| [`shill`](shill/README.md) | NixOS container host (most applications; per-container pages under `shill/`) |
| [`whale2`](whale2.md) | podman/OCI game-server host |
| [`git`](git.md) | Gitea + Gitea Actions runner |
| [`mail`](mail.md) | Debian VM running mailcow (not NixOS) |
| [`darts`](darts.md) | Third-party/customer VM (not NixOS) |
| [`portcullis`](portcullis.md) | Bare-metal edge box for Nikhef; being staged, not yet in service |
The applications running on `shill` are listed on its own page — see
[shill/README.md](shill/README.md#containers).
`mail` and `darts` are host-defined VMs whose guest operating systems are managed out of band; their
pages document only what this repository controls.
`portcullis` is new hardware headed for Nikhef that will take over most of `estuary`'s edge routing.
It is not deployed yet and the resulting topology is still being worked out. It travels with
[`fergal`](fergal.md), an OpenWrt SFP+ switch whose firmware this flake builds; both are staged at
home for now, borrowing the home fabric through
[jim](../home/switches.md#fergal-portculliss-switch).