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Tagged vlan ethernet interfaces in linux are of the form ethX.nnnn where nnnn is the vlan tag ID and X is the ethernet card ID. I’m trying to reference one of these as generated by facter, but am having problems. Here’s some more data:

[root@gims1-temp ~]# facter | grep ipadd
ipaddress => 10.0.36.141
ipaddress_eth0.3002 => 10.0.36.141
[root@gims1-temp ~]# facter ipaddress
10.0.36.141
[root@gims1-temp ~]# facter ipaddress_eth0.3002
[root@gims1-temp ~]#

As you can see, facter doesn’t properly report this out, when asked, but someone suggested that’s a separate facter bug.

Here’s where I try to use the variable in my site.pp:

node gims1-temp {
  $tomcat_listen_ip = $ipaddress_eth0.3002;
  include solr
}

When I try to run puppet against that, I receive:

err: Could not retrieve catalog: Could not parse for environment production: Syntax error at '.'; expected '}' at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:217