Re: Snort 2.8 Beta Available on CVS

[Kevin Johnson <kjohnson () secureideas net>]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Dirk Geschke wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> > We do not maintain barnyard, so I don't know if someone will  
> > update it
> > to support unified2. However, it shouldn't be hard to update anything
> > that worked with Unified1 to work with Unified2. Check spo_unified2.c
> > spo_unified2.h. IMHO, its even easier to work with since  
> > everything is
> > in network byte order.
>
> yes, so far you are right. But this was not my question at all...
>
> > I don't believe there are any plans at this point to update the
> > database output plugin for IPv6 support.
>
> I think the database scheme should be updated. I think even the
> spo_datbase.c should be able to deal with IPv6. And of course all
> the other tools like the database plugin of barnyard and FLoP. On
> the other hand we should see the support for IPv6 in tools like
> BASE.
>
> So my simple question is: How should this be done so that all can use
> the same scheme? Even Sguil needs to be able to deal with IPv6 but
> they use a complete different database layout so they will not have
> a problem of interoperability with other tools...

The BASE team is working on a new database schema, both for  
performance reasons and for IPv6 support.  We are hoping that this  
schema will then be able to work with the other tools.  We welcome  
any help toward this goal. ; )

Kevin

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