[jira] [Created] (VCL-925) Update Linux.pm to not rely on ifconfig for all distributions

["Andy Kurth (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andy Kurth created VCL-925:
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             Summary: Update Linux.pm to not rely on ifconfig for all distributions
                 Key: VCL-925
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-925
             Project: VCL
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: vcld (backend)
            Reporter: Andy Kurth
            Assignee: Andy Kurth


{{Linux.pm::get_network_configuration}} relies on the _ifconfig_ utility to be present.  Several other subroutines rely on the results from {{get_network_configuration}}.  As a result, things don't work if _ifconfig_ isn't installed.

This utility is not always installed by default.  For example, a minimal installation of CentOS 7 or Fedora 23.  It can be installed on all distributions I know of by installing net-tools.  The lazy way to approach this would be to simply require people to install it before capturing a base image.  However, it would be ideal to not require this and update the code to try to use other commands such as _ip addr show_ if ifconfig isn't present.






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