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Date:      Sun, 6 May 2012 04:25:52 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problem with dhclient after update to FreeBSD-8.3
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205060423240.18788@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FA648EF.3060106@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <BLU0-SMTP126348B7AB577C4DB317120932D0@phx.gbl> <4FA648EF.3060106@FreeBSD.org>

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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.



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