Re: Snort 2.8.1 Release Candidate Now Available

["Justin Heath" <justin.heath () gmail com>]

This should not affect your rule writing. However, dynamic attributes should
help define your stream and frag policies on the fly with the assistance of
an asset identification tool.


Cheers,
Justin

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Patrik Nordlén <patrik.nordlen () sentor se>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 March 2008 16.18.26 Snort Releases wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > A release candidate version of Snort 2.8.1 is now available on
> > snort.org, at http://www.snort.org/dl/
> >
> > Feature highlights:
> >
> > * Support for target-based attribute tables
> [...]
>
> This feature seems VERY cool and a great step forward for Snort! I browsed
> through the manual for 2.8.1rc and found some information on how the file
> containing the attribute tables should be formatted - however I found no
> further information on how to actually use this new functionality when
> writing rules. I guess this will be added in the documentation before the
> final 2.8 comes out, but could someone in the know shed some light on this
> until then? Also, I'm curious as to whether this means all current rules
> will
> soon be rewritten to use these attributes primarily.
>
> Cheers,
> Patrik
>
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