Issue #16511 has been updated by Jeff McCune.

Alex, would you mind sending me the output of `arp -a` from a solaris8 machine? 
 I need this information to write an effective spec test for this patch.  You 
could redact all of the actual addresses with 0's or something, but the 
formatting is important for me to write the test.

I've also come to the conclusion that the EC2 facts need to be re-written, but 
I don't want fixing this bug to depend on the rewrite.  I only mention this if 
you look at patching the existing code in Facter 1.6.x.

-Jeff
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Bug #16511: EC2 code breaks facter on Solaris 8 and earlier
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16511#change-75216

Author: Alex Harvey
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Jeff McCune
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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