In some email I received from David W. Chapman Jr., sie wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:20:00PM -0400, Jerry Murdock wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Shorter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Jerry Murdock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: "Darren Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: IPFilter 3.4.28
> > 
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:30:07AM -0400, Jerry Murdock wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Are you planning to update FreeBSD -STABLE once the tree opens back up?
> > > > Seems like a short "fixed in -stable" answer would be easier to support
> > > > from the FreeBSD perspective as well as yours.
> > >
> > > It would be logical to have it in 4.6-SECURITY, but perhaps
> > > having a IPFilter in ports is the best way to do this.
> > >
> > The security branch would certainly make sense considering what IPF is. I
> > think that would probably imply updating -stable as well, which is fine.
> > 
> > I like the idea of a port but from the prior discussion having a port sounds
> > like it may cause more questions/grumbling than not having one.  I'd be
> > grateful to have a port as an option, I'm just not sure I'd want to be in
> > the maintainer's shoes.
> 
> It can still go into 4.6-RELEASE if it is really necessary, but we 
> may be short timewise since there would be almost 0 day MFC.

It's now in FreeBSD-current.

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