From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Fri Apr 22 22:23:11 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA43B19809 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rysto32@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x230.google.com (mail-ig0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B2071A5D for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rysto32@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ig0-x230.google.com with SMTP id g8so29058904igr.0 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:23:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc; bh=u+RY7C2W7NUWGgsODzQQTtNVQDdVtbHYtSyk5HZQ1kM=; b=q3v3J7sEKIiZZvxjOfQj+FhSh53Qm+kVmTvL3/8XMQArK59fPKcm5Hd3zap8TiYHOD V8vO/PBMptGZUg4gwIrSK5gLY05HcsMnLcXoErnXNzYBCrorqnYfnq6UYDxdywjV/9sn z3T4H7oZj0ELWq5VP41dF53d/MWoFkESgFujPhNi09EKsXe7qTe7hweuKmJJu/ybqemO AK98/IfVbBSvIv0aaIOQbwt1MzdG3D2yk/FfeBzmU5KF+jYmvKbCg1elCGlnApFiaJM7 38dZKAFbiFpVdPPtwzt8DQZBeTb10ygZSVI6tB/mO/g6TngIKxnhZGCGvEoHcXjr/dpe 5qtw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc; bh=u+RY7C2W7NUWGgsODzQQTtNVQDdVtbHYtSyk5HZQ1kM=; b=Cmi++vhhNKPeCSdKIu8fyScQ0/rBUoNhZh/7j2qhEAcppiLhr7xtRfgNlVlE9IXhpO GudmWlIwthaDUu1CKwTnxYWNMl3aJ14BhC05upK5GDrlz3qmhVygXRbviGDSpGzyPyng SE/ispuCr4IubiDtLPAXK/fybGeRt2FpBsWwUC1SQRkQJqRxwH4k2O1Tf0dhjb/rnq+/ vd0PfhfV0BVeqPW7rfxuV39wvo2qGYKuxo6/jfjucnC3MXKJeBrdYGsuwcdWAvwMTN5B eM1wBRA9giGS5uGogQFHlIAn7kxtM1psLG5mZf45XOnI9/gzH7FWR6BZCnmxtqrF7gKG /5pA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FViTdJMt3lV+9eH2aQ7r6DFHuj5I3GafgxAji0ymCokY8BVFslWSQovg4PfCr9w/bP0hfvdbm5MFUAiNQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.38.129 with SMTP id g1mr742357igk.34.1461363790611; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.133.65 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:23:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:23:10 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Persist ifconfig aliases after disconnect From: Ryan Stone To: Matthew Smith Cc: freebsd-net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:23:11 -0000 When you say the "connection drops", do you mean that the NIC loses link and then has it comes back? Are you using DHCP to get the main address? It sounds like perhaps dhclient is running and clearing the addresses it doesn't know about.