Three fixes from live-calibrating the kernel impairment filters on an
isolated instance (Docker-to-Docker veth link, per-sequence evidence):
- update_filters skipped an unchanged filters dict as a no-op, so a
one-shot window_drop outage that had already passed could never be
re-armed: re-applying the same values produced no datapath command at
all. A PUT still carrying window_drop now reconciles, restarting the
schedule from the apply as documented. Measured: identical re-apply
moves the outage window from seq 50-70 to 70-91 (arm at +8s of the
new apply).
- gemodel parameter semantics were documented backwards in the
validation rules, available_filters, the MCP/copilot descriptions and
the feature docs. Measured against the kernel (per-direction counters,
offered = sent + dropped): p is the good-to-bad transition chance, r
the bad-to-good transition, 1-h the loss chance in the bad state (the
good state loses nothing) - mean one-way loss p/(p+r)*(1-h), e.g.
[10,30,100] -> 24.8%/25.7% measured vs 25% predicted, [5,45,100] ->
10.8% both ways vs 10%.
- kernel_datapath was silently stripped from every REST/MCP link payload
by the response model (LinkBase carried no such field), so clients
could not tell a kernel link from a relay one.
Also verified on the same setup: the 3-argument window_drop form works
exactly as specified ([3000,5000,100] -> a single seq 31-55 outage,
[20000,6000,100] -> seq 115-144), and both generations of the command
builder emit the parameters unpadded.
Adds an API test for the field and controller tests for the no-op skip
and the window_drop re-arm exemption.
LLM agents transcribe UUIDs unreliably — a 2-character slip invents an
id that never existed and is invisible to the eye. Tool parameters now
accept names wherever the server guarantees uniqueness: project names
among live projects, node names within a project. Links, drawings,
appliances and snapshots have no names and stay UUID-only.
Resolution sits in the single dispatch choke point (_run_handler_sync):
UUID-shaped values pass through untouched, names resolve with one list
call, and an unknown name fails fast listing the known names instead of
a confusing downstream 404. As a backstop for residual UUID typos,
error replies carrying "<UUID> doesn't exist" are matched against the
in-scope ids; a single candidate within edit distance 2 earns a
"Did you mean ...?" hint.
link_update, link_available_filters and the copilot packet-filter tool
still advertised the pre-kernel-datapath five types. List the full
thirteen with positional parameter formats, ranges and kernel-only
marking, point at link_available_filters as the per-link authority
(topology + compute capability gated), and document window_drop's
apply-relative schedule restart. Also add kernel_datapath to the link
field lists.
Description-only: handlers pass filters through unchanged.
