I just followed the instructions on www.ipfilter.org for upgrading ipfilter
with NetBSD. This may be the wrong list, but for the sake completion, how
would I statically link them instead?

> > 'file /sbin/ipf' reports
> >
> > /sbin/ipf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
dynamically
> > linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>           ||||||||||||||||
>
> How did that happen? Everything in /sbin is supposed to be staticly
> linked?
>
> > > > /sbin/ipf: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
> > > > /sbin/ipf: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
> > > >
> > > > when I run
> > > >
> > > > /etc/rc.d/ipfilter start
> > > >
> > > > from the command line, it works just fine.