Re: setting ip address removes / replaces first of aliases

From: Zhenlei Huang <zlei_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:22:29 UTC

> On Nov 14, 2025, at 7:02 AM, Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> wrote:
> 
> Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> But in a sense this is curious because the behavior breaks imaginary distinction 
>> between the main address and the aliases.  One might have expected that removing 
>> and then setting again the main address would not affect the aliases.
> 
> And to muddy the waters even further, the adding/removing of Ipv6 addresses doesn't
> behave the same way!

There's one issue about the alias of IPv6 address reported by downstream project, https://github.com/opnsense/src/issues/240 <https://github.com/opnsense/src/issues/240> .

Best regards,
Zhenlei

> 
> Jamie
>