box/host/box-firewall.service
claude-bot-andresmgsl 043e556027 Give box-firewall.service RemainAfterExit so its state means something
Found by running the drill on a real host, which I could not do before.

The unit is Type=oneshot with no RemainAfterExit, so systemd marks it
'inactive (dead)' the moment ExecStart succeeds. The rules are applied and the
box-to-box drop is live, and the unit still reads as though it died. That is
precisely the question people ask this unit: drill.sh's own failure hint sends
you to 'systemctl status box-firewall.service' to find out whether the firewall
came up, and today the honest answer and the alarming one look identical.

setup-host.sh already believed this was set — 'The unit is RemainAfterExit, so
once it has run it stays "active" forever' — and reasoned from it to explain why
it uses restart instead of 'enable --now'. The reasoning is right and the
restart is right; only the unit was missing the line the comment assumed.

Verified live: before, 'nft list table bridge box' showed the drop present while
is-active said inactive. After, is-active says active (exited) with the drop
still present, and restart still re-applies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 14:05:23 +00:00

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[Unit]
Description=Re-apply box host firewall rules
# After docker so DOCKER-USER exists; still fine if docker is absent.
After=network.target incus.service docker.service
Wants=network.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
# The unit's state must mean "the rules are applied", because that is the
# question everyone asks it — drill.sh sends you to 'systemctl status
# box-firewall' to diagnose exactly that. Without this, a oneshot goes
# 'inactive (dead)' the moment it succeeds, so a host whose isolation is
# perfectly live reads as a host whose firewall unit died. setup-host.sh's
# comment already assumed this was set; it was not.
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/box-firewall
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target