Re: Snort IPv6

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

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On Feb 2, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Eric Hines wrote:

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> Hi Martin,
>
> Approbation to the Sourcefire team for keeping this issue on your  
> radar.
> I googled and saw your posting back in 2002 for an initial  
> experimental
> release you made of Snort IPv6 support but never saw anything after
> that. I should preface this email with the fact that the OMB has made
> this a mandate for all federal agencies by June of the 2008 federal
> fiscal year, which certainly puts this on the radar for quite a lot of
> folks.

We're aware of the OMB mandate and working to make sure that the  
federal government doesn't lose the ability to use Snort on its  
networks.

> Will the IPv6 support in Snort be GPLed and made as a part of the
> snort.org distribution or can you not comment on that this early?

If it's in Snort it will be GPL, we run the same code here that is  
available on snort.org and decoders are pretty fundamental to the  
program.

> I as well as our customers would be happy to provide extensive testing
> for you in both 10/100 and multi-gig environments of any upcoming IPv6
> experimental releases.

Ok, we'll keep that in mind.  We may have a new stream reassembler in  
the works that's going to need a similar amount of testing as well... ;)

     -Marty


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Martin Roesch - Founder/CTO, Sourcefire Inc. - +1-410-290-1616
Sourcefire - Security for the Real World - http://www.sourcefire.com
Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org




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