what does $::default_gateway do?

Part of this got lost in the Merge. I think we need to review how we set up network services within the overall packages especially given the flexibility to people are looking for.

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On Jun 10, 2013, at 12:21 PM, "Dan Bode" <email address hidden> wrote:

> New question #230516 on Cisco Openstack:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/openstack-cisco/+question/230516
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> I see a reference to default_gateway related to the config in core.pp related to setting up caching, but I cannot find reference to it being set as a default anywhere.
>
> Is it still used?
> what does it mean?
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Adding Ian as he added this in:
https://github.com/CiscoSystems/folsom-manifests/pull/24/files

As Dan B mentioned, I also I noticed the $::default_gateway is being referenced in core the manifest, but it's not specified anywhere. Ian, can you remove default_gateway or add the appropriate definition in the site manifest?

From site.pp.example:

# This gateway is optional - if there's a gateway providing a default route,
# specify it here. If not, comment this line out.
$node_gateway = '192.168.242.1'

... it would appear its name is wrong. But what that's supposed to do is: - if there is a gateway set up on clients, let the clients do pip fetches directly, otherwise point them all to the local pip cache. As you can see (and apparently as we've now been testing for some time) using the local pip cache works, so we could just take the conditional out completely.