Issue #11307 has been updated by James Turnbull. Subject changed from Depricate the arp fact to Deprecate the arp fact
---------------------------------------- Feature #11307: Deprecate the arp fact https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11307 Author: Pieter Lexis Status: Unreviewed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: library Target version: Keywords: arp Branch: Affected Facter version: The arp fact in `lib/facter/arp.rb` is useless. It is only used for the ec2 module (see #11196). And because of the nature of ARP (the protocol), the first entry in the ARP-table (the one that makes the fact) can change: $ sudo arp -en -i eth0 | sed -e 1d 172.29.96.252 ether 40:61:86:51:69:5f C eth0 $ ping -c 1 172.29.96.31 PING 172.29.96.31 (172.29.96.31) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 172.29.96.31: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.336 ms --- 172.29.96.31 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.336/0.336/0.336/0.000 ms $ sudo arp -en -i eth0 | sed -e 1d 172.29.96.31 ether bc:ae:c5:aa:52:1b C eth0 172.29.96.252 ether 40:61:86:51:69:5f C eth0 The fact would change from 172.29.96.252 (my gateway) to 172.29.96.31 (some machine I just pinged). Also, the arp module creates the fact **if and only if** the first entry in the ARP-table is `fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff`. So IMHO, this fact in it's current state is useless. If one would want a fact based on the ARP-table,I would return a comma-separated list of all values in the ARP table. The same goes for the `arp_<interface>` facts in `lib/facter/util/ip.rb`. Lets have a discussion about this. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
