Bug 613086

Summary:	Use ip instead of ifconfig for IPoIB interfaces:
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Gurhan Ozen <gozen>
Component:	rdma	Assignee:	Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Gurhan Ozen <gozen>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	jburke, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	rdma-1.0-8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2010-11-10 21:28:24 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Gurhan Ozen 2010-07-09 16:34:56 UTC

Description of problem:
Rdma init script is utilizing ifconfig utility to control IPoIB interfaces which is producing lotsa of warning messages such as:

"Ifconfig uses the ioctl access method to get the full address information, which limits hardware addresses to 8 bytes.
Because Infiniband address has 20 bytes, only the first 8 bytes are displayed correctly.
Ifconfig is obsolete! For replacement check ip.
"

Probably ip should be used in favor of ifconfig. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel6-beta2

How reproducible:
Very

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Comment 2 Doug Ledford 2010-08-03 06:51:35 UTC

Changes made, will be tested tomorrow and checked in after successful tests.

Comment 3 Doug Ledford 2010-08-04 15:53:53 UTC

Note: I changed all usage of ifconfig to ip in the files owned by the rdma package.  However, ifup-aliases from initscripts still uses ifconfig and on IPoIB interfaces it is still noisy.  We would need to clone this bug against initscripts and get ifup-aliases modified in order to fully resolve the issue.

Comment 5 Gurhan Ozen 2010-08-12 18:17:12 UTC

Verifying this bug, but as comment #3 mentioned ifup- aliases still utilize ifconfig , so if someone's to do say, ifup ib0, s/he would still get the noise.

Comment 6 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 21:28:24 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.