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# return the ipaddress fact for a given alias interface
module Puppet::Parser::Functions
        newfunction(:interface_alias, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
                interface_alias = args[0].gsub(':', '_')
                address = lookupvar('ipaddress_#{interface_alias}')
                address
        end
end