Make primary IPv6 address easier to access

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Unknown Unknown
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 6.14.0
  • Component/s: None
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Description

On the networks I manage, I now primarily use IPv6 to access node, and find the addresses not so freindly to access.

I've added a patch to make the primary IPv6 address available under the top-level ip6address attribute.

The code is at http://github.com/aussiegeek/ohai, in the ip6address branch.

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Bryan McLellan [Opscode] added a comment -

We all knew this day would come. Thanks again Alan; merged to master.

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Bryan McLellan [Opscode] added a comment - We all knew this day would come. Thanks again Alan; merged to master.
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Laurent Désarmes added a comment -

It makes as very brutal assumption the primary ipv6 address will always use the same interface than the ipv4 address, that's wrong.
it has no reason to set ip6address from the network/linux plugin.

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - It makes as very brutal assumption the primary ipv6 address will always use the same interface than the ipv4 address, that's wrong. it has no reason to set ip6address from the network/linux plugin.
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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - - edited

the linux/network plugin also fails if there's no inet6 global address

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - - edited the linux/network plugin also fails if there's no inet6 global address
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Laurent Désarmes added a comment -

https://github.com/llaurent/ohai/compare/OHAI-347 to illustrate my comments

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - https://github.com/llaurent/ohai/compare/OHAI-347 to illustrate my comments
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Eric Hankins added a comment -

This causes the network plugin to blow up on my Ubuntu 11.10 Rackspace box: https://gist.github.com/2399277

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Eric Hankins added a comment - This causes the network plugin to blow up on my Ubuntu 11.10 Rackspace box: https://gist.github.com/2399277
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Laurent Désarmes added a comment -

i've reverted the ip6address change that were failing.
added support for default_inet6_route, default_inet6_gateway and neighbour_inet6

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - i've reverted the ip6address change that were failing. added support for default_inet6_route, default_inet6_gateway and neighbour_inet6
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Bryan McLellan [Opscode] added a comment -

Where did you do this Laurent?

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Bryan McLellan [Opscode] added a comment - Where did you do this Laurent?
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Laurent Désarmes added a comment -

https://github.com/llaurent/ohai/compare/OHAI-347 commits 7b9acde4 and 98901dce

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - https://github.com/llaurent/ohai/compare/OHAI-347 commits 7b9acde4 and 98901dce
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Laurent Désarmes added a comment -

basic detection of inet6 routes added to https://github.com/llaurent/ohai/compare/OHAI-347
still working on it: it needs some cleaning/refactoring
can OHAI-362 be merged in master ? that would help

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - basic detection of inet6 routes added to https://github.com/llaurent/ohai/compare/OHAI-347 still working on it: it needs some cleaning/refactoring can OHAI-362 be merged in master ? that would help
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Laurent Désarmes added a comment -

I've created another ticket for these improvements.
OHAI-370 should fix the regression introduced by OHAI-347.
so i'm reclosing OHAI-347 since it has been merged a long time ago anyway.

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - I've created another ticket for these improvements. OHAI-370 should fix the regression introduced by OHAI-347 . so i'm reclosing OHAI-347 since it has been merged a long time ago anyway.
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Bryan McLellan [Opscode] added a comment -

You didn't close this, did you mean to?

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment -

i shouldn't have reopened it in the first place

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Laurent Désarmes added a comment - i shouldn't have reopened it in the first place

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    Reporter:
    Alan Harper
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