Hi Alex,

What happens when you run 'ip addr list' instead?

ken.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Alex L. Demidov
<alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have Gentoo host where `ifconfig -a` prints long interface names
> truncated to 9 chars (there is closed bug report [1]).
>
> Unfortunately, `facter` uses `ifconfig -a` output to get list of
> interface names and because of truncation it generates `interfaces`
> fact with incorrect interface names. Also it fails to retrieve
> individual interface information with following message for
> each interface with name "myinterface":
>
> Device "myinterfa" does not exist.
> myinterfa: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>
> [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179920
>
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