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Subject: Re: Persist ifconfig aliases after disconnect
From: Matthew Smith <maaattss@gmail.com>
To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
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Assigning a static address and not using DHCP seems to have fixed the problem

Thank you for the help.

On 22 April 2016 at 23:23, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.