On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Brian wrote:

> On Feb 7, 9:14 pm, Gabriel Filion <lelu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In all cases, the interface with an internal IP comes up higher in the
>> output of ifconfig, and this makes the fact "ipaddress" take it as its
>> value.
>> 
>> Is there a way to force facter to chose a specific interface for the
>> ipaddress value?
> 
> I feel your pain! I have two facts, ipaddress_public and
> ipaddress_private, that I defined to work around this.
> 
> http://polibyte.com/blog/getting_ip_addresses_with_facter

This is really interesting.

One change you might want to consider making is to say that a 169.*.*.* 
ipaddresses doesn't count as having a valid address.

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