---
 heartbeat/IPaddr2 |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/heartbeat/IPaddr2
+++ b/heartbeat/IPaddr2
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2003 Tuomo Soini
 # Copyright (c) 2004-2006 SUSE LINUX AG, Lars Marowsky-Brée
 #                    All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2014 Wind River Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@
 #	OCF_RESKEY_nic
 #	OCF_RESKEY_cidr_netmask
 #	OCF_RESKEY_iflabel
+#   OCF_RESKEY_if_type
 #	OCF_RESKEY_mac
 #	OCF_RESKEY_clusterip_hash
 #	OCF_RESKEY_arp_interval
@@ -314,7 +316,13 @@ ip_init() {
 
 	BASEIP="$OCF_RESKEY_ip"
 	BRDCAST="$OCF_RESKEY_broadcast"
-	NIC="$OCF_RESKEY_nic"
+    IFTYPE="$OCF_RESKEY_if_type"
+    if [ -n "${IFTYPE}" ]
+    then
+        NIC=`grep ${IFTYPE}= /etc/platform/platform.conf | cut -f2 -d '='`
+    else
+        NIC="$OCF_RESKEY_nic"
+    fi
         # Note: We had a version out there for a while which used
         # netmask instead of cidr_netmask. Don't remove this aliasing code!
         if