On Mar 28, 8:47 pm, deet wrote:
> I like the idea of accessing this information through facter instead
> of needlessly running ifconfig again.
Indeed. Take a look at the facter libraries, they're quite readable
overall. Plenty of good bits in 'facter/util' that you can use also.
> Is their an
> interfaces = Facter.value(:interfaces).split(',')
> nsd_gateway = nil
I like the idea of accessing this information through facter instead
of needlessly running ifconfig again.
> interfaces.each do |iface|
> next unless (address =
> Facte
> host has one). I've not ventured down the custom fact road before so
> this should be an little adventure.
Your version certainly will work. I think this is how I might take a
stab at it though:
require 'facter'
require 'ipaddr'
require 'yaml'
Facter.add("nsd_gateway") do
setcode do
> From this example you're trying to detect it any interface is on the
> 10.55.12.0 network,
That's correct. I have 4 specific subnet's I'm looking for in this
example. A host may have zero interfaces on one of the specific
subnets or just 1. I was wanting to return the ipaddress that the
> And I want to say something like (pseudo code)
> if network_* = 10.55.12.0
> then
> static route magic here
>From this example you're trying to detect it any interface is on the
10.55.12.0 network, correct? Are you also trying to match a set of
networks (10.55.12.0, 10.55.13.0, etc) wit
