Puppet users - Sep 2012 - Puppet on Windows 2003 Server > wrong IP via facter?

Hello!

I''m just getting started working with Puppet and testing on a Windows
2003
server. When I run facter on this server it returns a wrong value for the 
ipaddress (should be 10.10.0.203, but facter sets ipaddress=10.0.0.203). As 
you can see from the following ipconfig output, facter is looking at the 
TELECOM Ethernet adapter instead of the adapter used for the local domain 
(QALAB). Any work-around for this situation?

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter QALAB 10.10.0.203:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.0.203
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.0.1

Ethernet adapter TELECOM 10.0.0.203:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.203
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

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Hi Alan,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Alan Phillips <alanphil@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I''m just getting started working with Puppet and testing on a
Windows 2003
> server. When I run facter on this server it returns a wrong value for the
> ipaddress (should be 10.10.0.203, but facter sets ipaddress=10.0.0.203). As
> you can see from the following ipconfig output, facter is looking at the
> TELECOM Ethernet adapter instead of the adapter used for the local domain
> (QALAB). Any work-around for this situation?
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig
>
> Windows IP Configuration
>
> Ethernet adapter QALAB 10.10.0.203:
>
>    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>    IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.0.203
>    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
>    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.0.1
>
> Ethernet adapter TELECOM 10.0.0.203:
>
>    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>    IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.203
>    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
>
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Facter (on all platforms) doesn''t handle multiple interfaces very
well. The logic is typically pick the ipaddress from the "first"
interface. See http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5816

This code is undergoing some changes. See
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1346 and
https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/267

On Windows the current logic is:

    require ''socket''
    IPSocket.getaddress(Socket.gethostname)

I''m not sure why it does this to be honest. I would have expected it
to use WMI to only report on interfaces that have IP enabled,
something like:

    wmic nicconfig where (IPEnabled = "true") get IPAddress

Or using netsh:

    netsh.exe interface ip show ipaddresses 10

where 10 is my interface index for my "Local Area Connection"
interface

Note facter does, or at least should be, reporting on the ipaddress
associated with each interface, downcased and with underscores. In my
case:

    ipaddress_local_area_connection => 172.16.138.231
    ipaddress_loopback_pseudo_interface_1 => 127.0.0.1

Josh

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Developer, Puppet Labs

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