refactor(tailscale): rename exit-node to subnet-router; drop --advertise-exit-node
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The host was always intended as a LAN subnet router (--advertise-routes),
not a full exit node (--advertise-exit-node). Rename every trace of
"exit-node" to "subnet-router" and remove the --advertise-exit-node flag
from extraSetFlags; the operator supplies --advertise-routes at first
tailscale up and Tailscale persists it in state across reboots.

Routing sysctls (useRoutingFeatures = "server"), openFirewall, and
trustedInterfaces = ["tailscale0"] are still required for subnet routing
to work, so the module is kept — just correctly named.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TF2dsuKZAiyZWQ1D7CuHJm
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2026-07-25 14:53:28 +10:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 4.6
parent fa52c2849a
commit e4b335be23
7 changed files with 47 additions and 63 deletions
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
{ ... }:
{
imports = [
../tailscale/exit-node.nix
];
# "server", not "both": this build type only ever advertises itself as an
# exit node (see ../tailscale/exit-node.nix) -- it doesn't advertise LAN
# subnet routes, so it doesn't need the "client"-side loose reverse-path
# filtering that "both" would also turn on. Deliberately left unbundled
# from LAN-subnet-route advertisement so this build type stays valid on
# every platform, including linode (a remote VPS with no network path to
# the home LAN at all).
services.tailscale.useRoutingFeatures = "server";
# Forwarded exit-node traffic arrives on tailscale0 already
# tailscale-authenticated -- the firewall's normal per-port allow-list
# would otherwise drop it. Standard NixOS/Tailscale exit-node guidance.
networking.firewall.trustedInterfaces = [ "tailscale0" ];
}
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
{ ... }:
{
imports = [
../tailscale/subnet-router.nix
];
# "server", not "both": this build type advertises LAN subnet routes but
# doesn't use another tailscale exit node itself, so it doesn't need the
# "client"-side loose reverse-path filtering that "both" would also enable.
# Deliberately kept explicit here (not just relying on subnet-router.nix's
# own setting) so the intent is clear at the build-type level.
services.tailscale.useRoutingFeatures = "server";
# Forwarded subnet-router traffic arrives on tailscale0 already
# tailscale-authenticated -- the firewall's normal per-port allow-list
# would otherwise drop it. Standard NixOS/Tailscale subnet-router guidance.
networking.firewall.trustedInterfaces = [ "tailscale0" ];
}