Use "ip" instead of "ifconfig" to get MAC address
"ifconfig" get different formats of output under different systems,
like CentOS and Fedora, but "ip" can provide uniform format, so we
use "ip" instead of "ifconfig" to get MAC address.
Change-Id: If7559ea96c96ed2f33ddb00737ee0f53f7de4990
Closes-Bug: 1381416
diff --git a/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py b/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py
index 89904b2..6a238d0 100644
--- a/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py
+++ b/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
return self.exec_command(cmd)
def get_mac_address(self):
- cmd = "/sbin/ifconfig | awk '/HWaddr/ {print $5}'"
+ cmd = "/bin/ip addr | awk '/ether/ {print $2}'"
return self.exec_command(cmd)
def get_ip_list(self):
diff --git a/tempest/tests/common/utils/linux/test_remote_client.py b/tempest/tests/common/utils/linux/test_remote_client.py
index 0db4cfa..e8650c5 100644
--- a/tempest/tests/common/utils/linux/test_remote_client.py
+++ b/tempest/tests/common/utils/linux/test_remote_client.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
self.assertEqual(self.conn.get_mac_address(), macs)
self._assert_exec_called_with(
- "/sbin/ifconfig | awk '/HWaddr/ {print $5}'")
+ "/bin/ip addr | awk '/ether/ {print $2}'")
def test_get_ip_list(self):
ips = """1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue