From bcd3b3f215d04e4f0cb53a8517e62a4d5d04681a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:12:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] allow interface overrides for ip address

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
---
 bin/ip_address | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/ip_address b/bin/ip_address
index 9ba54f01..c7dbf4f4 100755
--- a/bin/ip_address
+++ b/bin/ip_address
@@ -29,7 +29,13 @@ fi
 [ "$hostname" = "1" ] && space=" "
 [ "$whoami" = "1" ] && space=" "
 
-interface=`tail -n1 /proc/net/route  | awk '{print $1}'`
+# Allow interface overrides in $HOME/.$PKG/statusrc
+if [ -n "$MONITORED_NETWORK" ]; then
+	interface="$MONITORED_NETWORK"
+else
+	interface=`tail -n1 /proc/net/route  | awk '{print $1}'`
+fi
+
 ipaddr=`/sbin/ifconfig "$interface" | grep "inet addr:" | sed "s/^.*inet addr://" | sed "s/ .*$//"`
 
 printf "%s\005{+b }%s\005{-}" "$space" "$ipaddr"