# AUDIT — vacation remote-ops: temp access, connection/health diagnosis, app triage
**Date:** 2026-07-20 · **Status:** ACTIVE (remote-site window until ~2026-08-02)
**Operator:** Claude Code on DooPlex · **Target:** demo host `demo-felhom` (N100) + guest 9201
**Run class:** runbook / diagnosis. Docs-only commits. No code changes, no version bumps, no builds.
Baselines: felhom-controller `29eda5d86e` (v0.148.0, = deployed) · felhom-agent `d81fddc7b1`
(deployed binary **0.90.0**) · felhom.eu (audit doc only).
---
## 1. Access change summary
felhom-pve was physically relocated to a remote site. Access is via Tailscale.
| Item | Result |
|---|---|
| `~/.ssh/config` on DooPlex | **Already correct** — `Host felhom-pve` → `HostName 100.70.170.35`. No edit needed. A separate `Host felhom-pve-lan` → `192.168.0.162` entry preserves the home-LAN path. |
| Host-key identity check | **PASS** — ed25519 key at `100.70.170.35` is byte-identical to the stored key for `192.168.0.162` (`…OOz0BjPXLRCI3Z9C…`). Same machine, not a reinstall. |
| Tailnet path | **direct**, `37.191.56.193:45127` (not DERP-relayed). ICMP 4/4, rtt min/avg/max **34.7 / 36.8 / 38.3 ms**. |
| Phase 0.4 alias verification | `ssh felhom-pve "pct exec 9201 -- docker ps …"` → `gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-controller:0.148.0 \| Up 31 minutes (healthy)`. Full CC hop works. |
The tailscale health check on the host notes *"Some peers are advertising routes but
`--accept-routes` is false"* — expected and correct per the travel-only decision recorded in
`tailscale-n100-location-independent-2026-07-19`.
---
## 2. Ground-truth snapshot (Phase A)
### Host `demo-felhom`
```
vmbr0 192.168.0.147/24 dynamic <-- DHCP, NOT the former static .162
tailscale0 100.70.170.35/32
wg-felhom 10.77.0.2/32
default via 192.168.0.1 dev vmbr0
/etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 192.168.0.1 (no Pi-hole; remote router is the resolver)
timedatectl: 2026-07-20 07:56 CEST / 05:56 UTC — synchronized: yes, NTP active, RTC sane
```
**The remote site uses the same `192.168.0.0/24` subnet as home**, but the host now holds **`.147`**,
not `.162`. This single fact is the root cause of §3.1.
Boot history — the box was **powered off for ~17h45m** in transport:
```
-1 Sat 2026-07-18 18:17:00 CEST → Sun 2026-07-19 13:40:40 CEST
0 Mon 2026-07-20 07:25:05 CEST → (current)
```
WireGuard (PBS offsite leg) is **healthy**: peer `167.233.158.164:443`, latest handshake 56 s,
keepalive 25 s, 1.70 MiB rx / 1.00 MiB sx.
### Guest 9201
```
eth0 192.168.0.104/24 dynamic
/etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 192.168.0.1
curl https://gitea.dooplex.hu → 200 (0.196 s) outbound + DNS healthy
```
### DooPlex
`tailscale` is not a host binary here — it runs as the k3s pod `admin-system/tailscale-6d7bdc9c5c-hwtjq`
(uptime 6d22h). The peer view from the host shows `dooplex 100.107.87.53 … active; direct`.
**Nothing in this section was changed.**
---
## 3. Per-symptom evidence and root cause
### 3.1 "A tárolókezelő ügynök nem elérhető" — ROOT-CAUSED (critical)
The agent service is **failed**, not merely unreachable. Smoking gun from
`journalctl -u felhom-agent`:
```
level=ERROR msg="daemon: exited with error"
err="localapi: bind 192.168.0.162:8443: listen tcp 192.168.0.162:8443:
bind: cannot assign requested address"
felhom-agent.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2026-07-20 07:25:51 CEST
```
The agent's `localapi` listener is pinned to the **literal `192.168.0.162`**. That address no longer
exists on any interface (the host DHCP'd `.147`), so `bind()` fails and the daemon exits ~1.1 s after
start. systemd retried 4× and gave up. **The agent has therefore been down since the first boot at
the remote site — it has never run there.**
Controller side, the matching error class is **`no route to host`** (not a TLS-pin or auth failure —
those would be STOP conditions of a different kind):
```
[ERROR] [quiesce] cycle error: check due: agentapi: GET /backup/due:
Get "https://192.168.0.162:8443/backup/due": dial tcp 192.168.0.162:8443: connect: no route to host
[WARN] local-api: GET /storage failed (… no route to host) — channel not verified
```
So **both ends are independently pinned to `192.168.0.162`**: the agent binds it, the controller
dials it. Nothing is listening (`ss -tlnp | grep felhom` → empty). This is precisely the OPEN item
recorded on 2026-07-19 — *"control plane pinned to 192.168.0.162 (agent `listen_addr` + guest
`bootstrap.json`) → not portable off-LAN"* — now realized in production.
**Allowed action taken** (§3.2 of the runbook): `systemctl reset-failed && systemctl restart felhom-agent`.
It failed identically within 6 s:
```
Jul 20 08:00:02 … err="localapi: bind 192.168.0.162:8443: … cannot assign requested address"
Jul 20 08:00:02 … felhom-agent.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
```
**STOP condition hit** (runbook §3.4, "agent endpoint stale because the host IP changed"). The fix
requires editing `/etc/felhom-agent/agent.json` (`listen_addr`) **and** the guest's
bootstrap-managed endpoint — both forbidden in this run. Escalated as **F1**.
> Note for the fix: re-pinning to the literal `192.168.0.147` would work today but is a DHCP lease
> away from breaking again, and the agent pins its **served leaf cert**, whose SAN set must cover
> whatever address the controller dials. Options are laid out in F1.
**Blast radius while F1 stands:** every agent-backed function is dead — storage management
(Tárhely), PBS whole-guest backups, the quiesce cycle, restore-tests, and the DR path. Guest-local
functions (dashboard, apps, app-data/DB backup cache, Samba, cloudflared) are unaffected.
### 3.2 Calibre-Web Automated stopped — RESOLVED
```
exit=128 finished=2026-07-19T11:40:15Z policy=unless-stopped restarts=0
```
Container log ends with a clean application shutdown (`webserver stop (restart=False)`,
`Performing shutdown of Calibre-Web Automated`) at 13:40:15 CEST — **~25 s before the host powered
off for transport**. Not a crash: an orderly stop caught by the shutdown, which then never restarted.
**Allowed action taken:** started via the controller's real endpoint (the exact path the UI uses —
session login, `` read from the page, `X-CSRF-Token` header):
```
POST /api/stacks/calibre-web/start → {"ok":true,"message":"Stack calibre-web start completed"}
docker ps → calibre-web | Up 20 seconds (healthy)
```
Verified healthy. Stack state now reads `running`.
### 3.3 Immich "Nem egészséges" + "URL nem elérhető" — ROOT-CAUSED, NOT fixed (per runbook D.3)
The two flags have **one** cause: `immich-server` is **not running at all**.
```
immich-server Exited (143) 18 hours ago policy=unless-stopped restarts=0
finished=2026-07-19T11:40:15Z health=unhealthy
immich-postgres Up 31 minutes (healthy)
immich-machine-learning Up 31 minutes (healthy)
immich-redis Up 31 minutes (healthy)
```
Exit **143 = SIGTERM** at 11:40:15Z — the *same second* as Calibre-Web, i.e. the same pre-transport
shutdown. Its final log lines are a fully healthy server (`Immich Server is listening … [v3.0.3]`,
ML server healthy, websocket clients connected) right up to the shutdown. **This is not leftover
state from the 2026-07-19 offsite-restore test (R-43/R-44)** — hypothesis (a) is disproved by the
logs: the server ran normally for ~42 min after that work, and there is no migration or DB error.
The URL probe is likewise **not** a remote-path/latency artifact — hypothesis (c) is disproved:
```
curl https://immich.demo-felhom.eu → 404 in 0.239 s (traefik has no live backend)
curl https://gitea.dooplex.hu → 200 in 0.196 s (same path, fine)
```
Fast 404, not a timeout. The public CF path is healthy; there is simply nothing behind the route.
**Left down deliberately** per runbook D.3. One-line fix available under GO — see **F5**.
### 3.4 "Utolsó mentés: Még nem futott" — ROOT-CAUSED as a **display bug** (independent of F1)
This is hypothesis (c), and it is provable from code rather than inferred.
`dashboardHandler` (`controller/internal/web/handlers.go:134`) populates the backup card with:
```go
data["BackupEnabled"] = s.cfg.Backup.Enabled // :172
data["DBDumpStatus"] = fullStatus.LastDBDump // :175
data["BackupRunning"] = fullStatus.Running // :177
data["BackupMaxAgeHours"] = … // :178
```
It **never sets `data["BackupStatus"]`** — and no other code path does either (repo-wide, the only
occurrences of `BackupStatus` are the agent-proxy handler and this template). But
`dashboard.html:116` gates the whole "Utolsó mentés" value on it:
```
{{if .BackupStatus}} … LastRun / "Sikertelen" …
{{else}} Még nem futott
{{end}}
```
`.BackupStatus` is therefore **always nil**, the `{{if}}` branch is dead code, and the dashboard
reports **"Még nem futott" permanently on every box regardless of actual backup history**. The
adjacent "Adatbázisok: 2 mentve" renders from `DBDumpStatus`, which *is* set — which is exactly the
contradiction observed.
Independent corroboration that backups had in fact been running: the hub's own host-reports
consistently carry `1 backups`, and hub events on 2026-07-19 include
`crossdrive_completed` for bookstack / calibre-web / immich / Megosztások at 03:30 and
`db_dump_completed` at 02:30.
Separately, and *not* a display artifact: **no backup can run at all while F1 stands** — the quiesce
cycle fails every 5 min on `GET /backup/due`. The guest-local `backup-cache` job still runs fine
(`Found 2 DB dump files across drives`, `Discovered 2 databases`, `Discovered app data: 3 apps`
every 5 min). No manual backup was triggered: the runbook permits one only if the cause was (a) *and*
the agent is healthy — neither holds.
### 3.5 Hub report freshness — HEALTHY, no gap
Reports land on the normal 15-min cadence from the remote site, and the staleness state machine
recovered by itself on boot:
```
07:25:42 Event from demo-felhom: controller_started (info) — Controller elindult (0.148.0)
07:25:43 Staleness: demo-felhom down → ok (node_recovered)
07:27:07 Event: app_start_failed — Telepített alkalmazás nem fut: Calibre-Web Automated
07:27:40 Event: agent_channel_unknown (warning) — Controller→agent channel down: … no route to host
07:27:41 Operator email sent for demo-felhom/agent_channel_unknown
07:40:37 / 07:55:37 Received report from demo-felhom (7603 / 6232 bytes)
```
Hub telemetry is location-independent (it rides the public path), and **the alerting chain worked
end to end** — the agent-channel failure produced an operator email within 33 s of the boot grace
expiring. The transport gap appears exactly as it should: last report 2026-07-19 11:40:22Z, next
2026-07-20 05:25 UTC.
---
## 4. Ranked findings
| # | Sev | Finding | Evidence | Proposed fix | Viktor GO? |
|---|-----|---------|----------|--------------|------------|
| **F1** | **CRITICAL** | Agent `localapi` binds the literal `192.168.0.162`; host is `.147` at the remote site → `bind: cannot assign requested address` → service **failed since first remote boot**. Controller dials the same literal. All agent-backed features (storage, PBS backup, quiesce, restore-test, DR) are dead for the whole 2-week window. | §3.1 | Bind `0.0.0.0:8443` (or the vmbr0 address resolved at start-up) instead of a literal, and give the controller a stable dial target; ensure the served leaf's SAN covers it. Short-term unblock: set `listen_addr` to `192.168.0.147` + reissue/verify the pin + update the guest endpoint — but this re-breaks on the next DHCP lease. | **YES** — config **and** code; touches bootstrap-managed guest state |
| **F2** | **HIGH** | No PBS/whole-guest backup can run while F1 stands → a ~2-week data-protection gap on the demo box. Quiesce errors every 5 min. | §3.1, §3.4 | Resolve F1; then verify a backup completes. | Follows F1 |
| **F3** | **HIGH** | Dashboard permanently shows "Utolsó mentés: **Még nem futott**" on **every** box: `dashboardHandler` never sets `BackupStatus`, so the template's `{{if .BackupStatus}}` branch is unreachable dead code. Customer-facing misinformation about backup state. | §3.4 (`handlers.go:134-178`, `dashboard.html:116-131`) | Populate `data["BackupStatus"]` from `fullStatus` in `dashboardHandler`, or drop the dead branch and render from `DBDumpStatus`/`GuestBackup`. Needs a red-proof test (the current code has none covering this key). | **YES** — code |
| **F4** | **MEDIUM** | **Multi-container apps under-alert.** `IsDownState` (`stacks/manager.go:46`) counts only `stopped`/`exited`; it deliberately excludes `unhealthy`. Immich's stack aggregates to `unhealthy` because 3 of 4 containers are up — so with its **primary container fully exited for 18 h and the app 100 % unreachable**, it produced **no** dead-app banner and **no** `app_start_failed` hub event. Calibre-Web (single container) alerted correctly within 90 s. | §3.3, live `/api/stacks` → `immich unhealthy`; hub log has an event for Calibre-Web only | Treat "primary/named container down" as down for a multi-container stack, or add an `unhealthy-for-N-cycles` escalation. | **YES** — code |
| **F5** | **MEDIUM** | Two app containers were left `Exited` by the pre-transport shutdown and were **not** restarted on boot despite `restart: unless-stopped`; the controller **reports** deployed-but-stopped apps (30 s `deadapp-check`) but never **starts** them. Immich has now been down 18 h+ and stays down. | §3.2, §3.3, `cmd/controller/main.go:435` | Start `immich` via the same real endpoint used for Calibre-Web (immediate, no code). Then consider a bounded boot-time reconciliation (start deployed-but-stopped apps once, N attempts, with the existing boot grace). | Start = **YES** (runbook D.3 forbade it here); reconciler = code, YES |
| **F6** | **LOW** | Agent logs `pbs: cannot read token secret; skipping datastore storage=felhom-pbs err="open /etc/pve/priv/storage/felhom-pbs.pw: permission denied"` on every start (pre-existing, R-39-adjacent — the non-root agent cannot read the PVE priv file). | §3.1 journal | Confirm whether the wrapper/sudoers path is meant to cover this read; fold into the R-39 follow-up. | YES |
| **F7** | **LOW** | Incidental defect found while tracing CSRF: `app_export.html:93` builds `var domain = '.{{$.CSRFToken}}'` — the **session CSRF token is substituted where the domain belongs**. Produces a broken "open in browser" link and puts a CSRF token into a URL. | `controller/internal/web/templates/app_export.html:93` | Replace `{{$.CSRFToken}}` with the domain value (cf. the neighbouring correct `csrfH()` helper). | YES — code |
**Healthy / no action:** tailnet path direct at 37 ms · host clock NTP-synced (no transport RTC drift)
· WireGuard PBS leg handshaking at 56 s · guest outbound + DNS · hub reports on cadence and
staleness auto-recovered · operator alert email fired correctly · 6 apps + Samba + traefik +
cloudflared running · USB HDD mounted and visible.
---
## 5. Actions taken
| Action | Authority | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| `systemctl reset-failed && systemctl restart felhom-agent` | runbook §3.2 (one allowed restart, after evidence) | **Failed identically** in 6 s — same bind error. Confirms F1 is deterministic config, not a transient. |
| `POST /api/stacks/calibre-web/start` via the controller's real session+CSRF path | runbook §3.2 (allowed, after evidence) | **Success** — `Up (healthy)`, stack state `running`. |
Nothing else was mutated. The ssh alias needed **no** edit (already on the tailnet IP).
---
## 6. Explicitly NOT fixed / not touched
- **F1** — no edit to `/etc/felhom-agent/agent.json`, the guest `bootstrap.json`, or any
bootstrap/golden-managed state. STOP condition §3.4 hit and honoured.
- **Immich** — left down per runbook D.3 (diagnose only), despite the fix being a one-call start.
- **F3, F4, F7** — code changes, out of scope for this run.
- **No** network/nftables/tailscale/route changes on either machine. **No** manual backup triggered.
**No** version bumps, image builds, deploys, or `REPORT.md` overwrites. **No** containers or
volumes deleted. **No** secrets written to any committed file.
---
## 7. Return-day checklist (~2026-08-02)
1. If F1 was fixed with a literal `.147`, revert it to the home-LAN value **or** (preferred) confirm
the address-independent fix still binds correctly back on the home LAN.
2. `~/.ssh/config` needs **no** revert — `Host felhom-pve` on the tailnet IP works from both
locations; `felhom-pve-lan` remains as the direct-LAN path. Re-verify the `.162`/LAN path once the
host is home and holds its expected address.
3. Delete the **TEMPORARY** blocks from `felhom-controller/CLAUDE.md` and `felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md`.
4. Confirm the host reacquires its intended home address (it is now on **DHCP** — the former static
`.162` config did not survive/apply; decide whether to restore a static or keep the reservation).
5. Re-verify: agent `active (running)`, dashboard banner clear, Tárhely renders, a PBS backup
completes, Immich healthy and reachable.
6. Flip this document's status from **ACTIVE** to **CLOSED**.
---
# Remediation — 2026-07-20
Executed the same day as the audit, on the relocated host. Mutations: one network file, one service
start, one app start, two backup runs (one of them the product's own scheduler), one code line.
## R.1 Static-IP flip (F1 window mitigation)
**State found had already moved.** By the time remediation started, the router's reservation had
taken effect and `vmbr0` held **`192.168.0.162` again — but via DHCP** (`dhclient.vmbr0.leases`
stamped 08:13 CEST). So the address existed; nothing had retried the agent since systemd gave up.
The 1.1 duplicate-address check needed interpretation, not blind obedience: `ping -c1 192.168.0.162`
**answered**, because the host was answering *itself*. The genuine test is from another node —
ARP for `.162` seen from guest 9201 resolved to `68:1d:ef:5d:a6:64`, which **is** this host's vmbr0
MAC. No duplicate; the STOP did not apply.
Interfaces diff (`.bak-2026-07-20` → new) — one stanza, nothing else touched:
```diff
auto vmbr0
-iface vmbr0 inet dhcp
+iface vmbr0 inet static
+ address 192.168.0.162/24
+ gateway 192.168.0.1
bridge-ports enp1s0
bridge-stp off
bridge-fd 0
```
The gateway was taken from the live default route (`192.168.0.1`), not from the spec. Applied
detached: `setsid ifreload -a` → log contained only `Killed old client process` (the vmbr0 dhclient).
Post-flip: `inet 192.168.0.162/24 scope global vmbr0` (no `dynamic` flag), `default via 192.168.0.1
… proto kernel onlink`, `curl https://gitea.dooplex.hu` → **200**, tailscale peer still
`active; direct`. Because the address was unchanged, connectivity never blipped.
## R.2 Agent recovery (Scenario A)
`systemctl reset-failed && systemctl start felhom-agent` — up at **08:40:11 CEST**:
```
active
LISTEN 192.168.0.162:8443 users:(("felhom-agent",pid=72859))
level=INFO msg="local-api server listening" addr=192.168.0.162:8443
wg-felhom latest handshake: 1 minute, 16 seconds ago
```
Controller side, `agentapi` errors **stopped entirely** (no `no route to host`, no
`channel not verified` in the following 5 min) — so this is not the "agent active but controller
still erroring" wrong outcome the scenario warns about. On an authenticated fetch of the real
dashboard the red **„A tárolókezelő ügynök nem elérhető"** banner is **gone**; the only
`alert-warning` strings left on the page are two modal "this cannot be undone" confirmations.
> **Method note for anyone repeating this:** grep the fetched page with **ASCII-only** patterns.
> Accented patterns sent through the ssh→`pct exec`→shell layers get mangled and return a
> false `0`, which reads exactly like "the banner is gone" when it is not. The page content itself
> is fine — it is the *pattern* that gets corrupted.
## R.3 F2 — the protection gap closed itself, then a manual run confirmed it
Restoring the agent was sufficient: the quiesce loop noticed the overdue whole-guest backup and ran
it **unprompted**, which is the strongest possible evidence the seam is healthy end to end:
```
06:40:36Z [quiesce] backup due — quiescing 3 stack(s): [bookstack calibre-web immich]
06:40:45Z [quiesce] backup job backup-9201-1784529645204076480 started — polling to completion
06:40:55Z [quiesce] … snapshotted — resuming app early (8B.2)
06:42:52Z [quiesce] … done
```
A manual app-data run then followed via the real UI endpoint (`POST /api/backup/run`, authenticated
session + `X-CSRF-Token` read from the page's `` — the same call the „Teljes mentés" button
makes), started 06:45:26Z:
```
06:45:27Z DB dump: bookstack-db → bookstack-mariadb.sql (55.9 KB, 228ms, 41 tables)
06:45:28Z DB dump: immich-postgres → immich-postgres.sql (49.9 MB, 1.28s, 66 tables)
06:45:44Z Volume dump: calibre-web/…_config → 360.0 KB
06:45:55Z Volume dump: immich/…_ml_cache → 785.5 MB
06:45:58Z Volume dump: immich/…_postgres_data → 241.5 MB
06:45:59Z Volume dump: immich/…_redis_data → 6.6 MB
06:46:10Z App-data backup completed: 2 databases (50.0 MB total), 3 volume dump(s) (43.348s)
```
**T = 2026-07-20 06:46:10Z** (run completion; newest dump artifact 06:45:28Z). Every container the
run stopped for a safe volume dump was restarted — all 12 containers verified `Up (healthy)`
afterwards.
## R.4 Immich (Scenario: app triage)
Started via the controller's real endpoint (`POST /api/stacks/immich/start`) → all four containers
`Up (healthy)`.
**Correction to §3.3 of the audit.** That section reported the URL probe returning 404 and treated
it as a live symptom. The probe used the **wrong hostname**: the traefik router rule is
``Host(`photos.demo-felhom.eu`)``, not `immich.demo-felhom.eu`. The container-down diagnosis stands
(and the 404 was genuinely traefik having no backend), but the specific probe URL in §3.3 was
invalid. Post-start, on the correct host: `https://photos.demo-felhom.eu` → **200** in 0.28 s.
## R.5 F3 — dashboard backup card (controller v0.149.0)
Handler-side one-liner, no template change: `data["BackupStatus"] = fullStatus.LastDBDump` in
`dashboardHandler`. Deployed to guest 9201 and verified on the **real, authenticated dashboard**:
```
Utolsó mentés:
2026-07-20 06:45
Adatbázisok:
3 mentve
```
Was „Még nem futott" on the identical page before the deploy. (The controller restart cleared the
in-memory run state, so the card renders from the dumps on disk — newest artifact 06:45 — which is
the honest value and exactly what the fresh-box branch must NOT fabricate.)
## R.6 Per-finding status after remediation
| # | Was | Now |
|---|-----|-----|
| **F1** | CRITICAL, open | **MITIGATED for the window** — `vmbr0` static `192.168.0.162/24`; agent up. **Durable fix still open → R-50** (island-bridge control plane, spike-first). Still depends on the site's subnet being `192.168.0.0/24` and `.162` free |
| **F2** | HIGH, open | **CLOSED** — whole-guest backup ran (06:42:52Z) + manual app-data run completed (T = 06:46:10Z) |
| **F3** | HIGH, open | **FIXED in controller v0.149.0**, live-verified on the dashboard |
| **Immich** | ROOT-CAUSED, down | **RESOLVED** — healthy, `photos.demo-felhom.eu` → 200 |
| **F4** | MEDIUM, open | Roadmap **R-51** (constraint recorded: must NOT simply fold `unhealthy` into down) |
| **F5** | MEDIUM, open | Roadmap **R-52** (includes root-causing the `unless-stopped` non-resurrection) |
| **F6** | LOW, open | **Already tracked** — it is R-39's remaining item (b), the agent's PBS `.pw` read path. No duplicate item minted |
| **F7** | LOW, open | Roadmap **R-53** |
Capability map: added a **PARTIAL** row — *"Box survives a site/network change (relocation,
different subnet, DHCP re-lease) with the control plane intact"* — citing this audit and pointing at
R-50/R-51/R-52.
## R.7 Not done / out of scope
No agent code, guest bootstrap config, golden state, nftables, tailscale, router, guest-9201
network, or `resolv.conf` was touched. No restores or drills. F4/F5/F6/F7 diagnosed and ranked only.
## R.8 Return-day checklist — amendments
Supersedes items 1 and 4 above:
1a. **Decide whether static `.162` stays when the box comes home.** *Recommendation: keep it.* It
removes the home router's DHCP/reservation from the control plane's dependency chain, which is
the same class of dependency that broke this window. Either way, R-50 is the real fix — the
static pin is a crutch, and it will fail at any site whose subnet is not `192.168.0.0/24`.
4a. `/etc/network/interfaces.bak-2026-07-20` on the host is the pre-flip DHCP config — delete it
once the decision in 1a is made and verified.
7. Note the deployed controller is **v0.149.0** (was 0.148.0 at audit time).