I have a system with a 'vr' driver NIC in it. ifconfig sees the interface
(and I have miibus and vr in my kernel) yet I cannot assign an IP address
to it with rc.conf or ifconfig it just doesn't "stick."
If I use ifconfig to take it down and bring it back up nothing changes but
the "RUNNING
Solved it: after more searching, the great Google hath taught me that you
can't have 2 IP addresses on the same subnet on one machine... and I was
trying to set the NICs to 192.168.1.n and .n+1. Too bad this doesn't drop a
message in a logfile though. Or if it did, I wasn't looking in the right