Issue #7559 has been updated by Justin Lambert.

Ryan Coleman wrote:
> Would it help to make this fact a module that is distributed through the 
> Puppet Forge instead of making a part of core Facter? Those running in EC2 
> can install the module and pluginsync the fact to their agents.

It would also mean puppet first runs would not have the correct ec2 information.

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Feature #7559: Fact for identifying Amazon VPC instances.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7559#change-78332

Author: Nigel Kersten
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: library
Target version: 
Keywords: vpc ec2 arp
Branch: 
Affected Facter version: 1.6.10


(From the list)

 I ran into a buglet in facter 1.5.9rc6 (from tmz repo).  In normal AWS
instances it works great.  In VPC instances if doesn't work.  This seems
to be because VPC instances don't use the fe:ff:ff:... MAC addresses.

<pre>
/sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:67:4E:E1:26:30
         inet addr:172.17.129.24  ...


/sbin/arp
Address          HWtype  HWaddress          Flags  Mask  Iface
169.254.169.253  ether   02:67:4E:C0:00:01  C      eth0
172.17.128.1     ether   02:67:4E:C0:00:01  C      eth0


/sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:67:4E:DA:58:16
         inet addr:172.17.128.126

/sbin/arp
Address          HWtype  HWaddress          Flags  Mask  Iface
169.254.169.253  ether   02:67:4E:C0:00:01  C      eth0
172.17.128.1     ether   02:67:4E:C0:00:01  C      eth0
</pre>


Of the two VPC EC2 instances I've seen, the MAC address always start
with 02:67:4E.  I have only seen two instances, both in the same VPC, so
I don't know if this holds for every VPC instance, YMMV.


in ec2.rb , the following seemed to work:
<pre>
def has_euca_mac?
 !!(Facter.value(:macaddress) =~ %r{^02:67:4[eE]:})
end
</pre>


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