threshold deprecation and event_filter

[Eoin Miller <eoin.miller () trojanedbinaries com>]

So if thresholds are deprecated and the replacements for them have been
split into two different things (detection_filter and event_filter),
this may cause a bit of a headache for rule writing and management. Why
can't you use event_filter within a rule?

As a feature request:
Couldn't Snort read the rules and parse the ones containing event_filter
statements and build a threshold.conf file on the fly from these rules?

This would allow rule writers to continue have the functionality of the
deprecated threshold/new event_filter event processing functionality
without requiring supplemental updates to a threshold.conf file that is
not currently managed/updated by rule management software.

-- Eoin

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