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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Ifconfig is obsolete!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

Steps to Reproduce:
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Additional info:

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

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.

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.

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.