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>
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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/
Networking
colony separates the host, VMs, shill containers and whale2 OCI workloads onto dedicated
networks behind estuary, which terminates the public addressing. The canonical
prefixes and routing overview are in the colony section of networking.md.
Boxes
| Box | Role |
|---|---|
colony |
Physical VM host (AMD, KVM, LVM-thin, borgthin backups → rsync.net) |
estuary |
Edge router: WAN, firewall/NAT, DNS, BGP (AS211024), WireGuard |
shill |
NixOS container host (most applications; per-container pages under shill/) |
whale2 |
podman/OCI game-server host |
git |
Gitea + Gitea Actions runner |
mail |
Debian VM running mailcow (not NixOS) |
darts |
Third-party/customer VM (not NixOS) |
portcullis |
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.
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, an OpenWrt SFP+ switch whose firmware this flake builds; both are staged at
home for now, borrowing the home fabric through
jim.