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maziggy 0b9ba0e1ef fix(diagnostics): read the subnet the host is actually on (issue #3092)
The Network subnet check told the reporter that 192.168.98.170 and
    192.168.96.9 were on different networks and to go configure routing
    between them. They are four hundred addresses apart inside one
    192.168.96.0/22 LAN.

    An IPv4 address does not carry its prefix, and the check supplied /24
    for both sides. That is the most common LAN and not the only one, and
    the guess is wrong in both directions: it splits a /22 and it merges a
    /25. Read the prefix off the interface that owns the address instead.

    find_local_ipv4_network() enumerates every interface, including the ones
    EXCLUDED_INTERFACE_PREFIXES hides. That list keeps docker0 and friends
    out of the Virtual Printer's bind dropdown; here the caller is asking
    about an address the kernel has already picked as a route source, and
    answering "unknown" because it sits on a bridge would be a worse answer
    than the truth. When nothing claims the address the check skips, which
    is what it always did with no host IP at all -- it must not assert a
    split it cannot see.

    The same check chose which of Bambuddy's own addresses to compare by
    probing a route toward 10.255.255.255, which on a multi-homed host is
    not the interface the printer is on. It asks for the route toward the
    printer now. On a two-NIC dev box that alone was warning about a printer
    sitting on the second card's own subnet.

    The probe takes IPv4 literals only. connect() on a name would resolve
    it on the event loop, and _same_subnet rejects names anyway, so nothing
    is lost. Resolving the prefix shells out to `ip -j addr show`, so it
    moves off the loop too.

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    fix(diagnostics): name the container engine instead of asking about Docker (issue #3092)

    "Not running in Docker - not applicable", said to a Bambuddy inside a
    Podman container. It reads as "you are on bare metal", and it sent the
    reporter looking for his problem somewhere else.

    Podman runs Bambuddy in exactly the two shapes Docker does, and the
    shape is the thing that breaks printer discovery and the Virtual
    Printer. detect_container_runtime() names the engine -- Docker, Podman,
    Kubernetes, containerd, LXC, or a container it cannot place -- and the
    check became Container network mode.

    is_running_in_docker() is deliberately left alone rather than rewritten
    on top of it. Three callers key real behaviour off that flag, and one of
    them switches the Add Printer flow from SSDP to subnet scanning. SSDP
    works for a host-networked Podman container, so answering True there
    would take a working feature away to fix a sentence. Widening it is a
    separate decision from naming the engine, so it is made separately.

    Mode detection keeps the original signal first, which also makes the
    Docker path incapable of regressing: a Docker host always has a docker0,
    so a container that sees one shares its namespace, and the new rules can
    only turn a warning into a pass. That signal says nothing about Podman,
    which creates no such interface on a host running no bridge containers --
    which is how host networking came to be reported as bridge. The general
    form of the same idea answers for Podman: an interface whose iflink
    equals its ifindex was created in this namespace, and a NAT-networked
    container only ever receives one end of a veth pair. tun/tap is skipped,
    because a container may run its own WireGuard and that tun is native to
    a namespace it is not evidence of. The interface also has to be the one
    the kernel just named -- sysfs is namespace-tagged but a bind-mounted
    host /sys is not, and reading a colliding name's numbers would be
    reading another namespace's answer.

    What is still unreadable now says so and suggests host networking if
    discovery is failing, rather than guessing bridge and telling a healthy
    install to recreate itself. An LXC or LXD system container is named and
    told the question does not apply: it is on the LAN like a small virtual
    machine, so there is no network mode to recommend -- and its subnet
    check still runs.

    An engine we cannot name is a sentinel the frontend localizes, not a
    word interpolated into thirteen other languages.

    The support bundle carries the engine name beside the Docker flag, so
    the next report of this shape is answerable from the bundle.
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