problem with dhclient after update to FreeBSD-8.3

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 6 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 05/05/2012 19:30, Carmel wrote:

>> All I guess I really have to get corrected is the "dhclient" thing,
>> assuming it is a real problem and just not some useless noise.
>
> The 'dhclient already running' message is untidy, but harmless.  It's
> the rc system refusing to start a duplicate dhclient process on some
> interface.  As your network interface is via a PCI  device, I can't see
> why devd would think it should try and restart dhclient for it.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=165477 may be relevant. 
It's on 9-stable, I haven't compared with 8.3.