feat(tailscale): enable UDP GRO forwarding on subnet router uplink
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Adds a oneshot systemd service that sets ethtool rx-udp-gro-forwarding on
and rx-gro-list off on the default-route interface at boot, silencing
Tailscale's warning about suboptimal UDP GRO forwarding on subnet routers.
Interface is discovered dynamically via `ip route get` so it works on all
platforms regardless of NIC naming.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Sonnet 4.6
parent 89d506180d
commit 4be064572d
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_:
{ pkgs, ... }:
{
imports = [ ./enable-service.nix ];
@@ -12,4 +12,24 @@ _:
# instead of relaying through DERP.
openFirewall = true;
};
# Tailscale recommends these ethtool flags on the uplink interface to get
# full UDP GRO throughput on subnet routers (https://tailscale.com/s/ethtool-config-udp-gro).
# The interface is derived from the default route so it works regardless of
# what the NIC is named on a given host.
systemd.services.tailscale-udp-gro = {
description = "Enable UDP GRO forwarding on uplink for Tailscale subnet router";
after = [ "network-online.target" ];
wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
path = [ pkgs.ethtool pkgs.iproute2 ];
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
ExecStart = pkgs.writeShellScript "tailscale-udp-gro" ''
NETDEV=$(ip -o route get 8.8.8.8 | cut -f 5 -d " ")
ethtool -K "$NETDEV" rx-udp-gro-forwarding on rx-gro-list off
'';
};
};
}