Issue #1415 has been updated by Andrew  Parker.

Status changed from In Topic Branch Pending Review to Merged - Pending Release
Target version set to 1.6.13

Merged in 
<https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commit/3416a1f5e4cd69142c457e4362cb0e4c32aab9e0>
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Bug #1415: MAC addresses are truncated for Infiniband
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1415#change-71666

Author: Thomas Bellman
Status: Merged - Pending Release
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: library
Target version: 1.6.13
Keywords: infiniband interface
Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/317
Affected Facter version: 


Facter (as of versions 1.3.8 and 1.5.0) assumes that MAC addresses
are always six octets.  That is not always the case, for example
if you have Infiniband interfaces:

<pre>
# ifconfig ib0
ib0       Link encap:InfiniBand  HWaddr 
80:00:00:48:FE:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:2044  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:256
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
</pre>

Facter truncates that address to six octets:

<pre>
# pwd
/root/facter-1.5.0
# RUBYLIB=lib bin/facter | grep macaddress_ib0
macaddress_ib0 => 80:00:00:48:FE:80
</pre>

The problem lies in the regexp parsing the output from ifconfig,
in lib/facter/macaddress.rb and in lib/facter/util/ip.rb:

<pre>
/(?:ether|HWaddr) (\w{1,2}:\w{1,2}:\w{1,2}:\w{1,2}:\w{1,2}:\w{1,2})/
</pre>

for Linux, and slight variations for *BSD and SunOS.  It would
probably be better to use

<pre>
    /(?:ether|HWaddr) ((\w{1,2}:){5,}\w{1,2})/
</pre>
for this.



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