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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/ohai/plugins/ec2.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ohai/plugins/ec2.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ohai/plugins/ec2.rb b/lib/ohai/plugins/ec2.rb index 7ad80e5e..1aeb5316 100644 --- a/lib/ohai/plugins/ec2.rb +++ b/lib/ohai/plugins/ec2.rb @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ Ohai.plugin(:EC2) do network[:interfaces].values.each do |iface| unless iface[:arp].nil? if iface[:arp].value?("fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff") + # using MAC addresses from ARP is unreliable because they could time-out from the table + # fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff is actually a sign of Xen, not specifically EC2 + deprecation_message <<-EOM +Detected EC2 by the presence of fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff in the ARP table. This method is unreliable and will be removed in a future version of ohai. Use knife-ec2 or create "/etc/chef/ohai/hints/ec2.json" instead. +EOM + Ohai::Log.warn(deprecation_message) Ohai::Log.debug("has_ec2_mac? == true") return true end |