Issue #16511 has been updated by Alex Harvey.
Actually it's only Solaris 8 and earlier that has this problem -
# uname -r
5.8
# arp -an
arp: -an: unknown host
# uname -r
5.9
# arp -an |head -4
Net to Media Table: IPv0
Device IP Address Mask Flags Phys Addr
------ -------------------- --------------- ----- ---------------
The -n option just says don't resolve the hostname to an IP address.
I have Solaris releases where uname -r returns 5.5.1, 5.6, 5.7 & 5.8 (in other
words, Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7 & 8) that would all be affected by this.
If the proposed fix is just to extend the 'if Facter.value(:kernel)' block with
additional cases then I can submit a patch. That's how I fixed it on my test
host. I was just a bit worried that there could be a better solution that
someone more familiar with this code might suggest. The if statements
everywhere might get a bit hard to maintain.
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Bug #16511: EC2 code breaks facter on Solaris 8 and earlier
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16511#change-73620
Author: Alex Harvey
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Alex Harvey
Category: solaris
Target version: 1.6.x
Keywords: solaris
Branch:
Affected Facter version:
The following code in lib/facter/util/ec2.rb breaks various facts on versions
of Unix that do not support the arp -n option.
# Test if the host has an arp entry in its cache that matches the EC2 arp,
# which is normally +fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff+.
def has_ec2_arp?
mac_address = "fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"
if Facter.value(:kernel) == 'windows'
arp_command = "arp -a"
mac_address.gsub!(":","-")
else
arp_command = "arp -an"
end
This results in failures like the following -
$ facter swapsize
arp: -an: unknown host
2.00 GB
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