ip on ib interface fails at startup

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Following messages are logged at the time of startup
Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than

or

Error, some other host already uses address

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
  • IP over InfiniBand with rdma-1.0-9.el6

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