Re: Snort 1.9 vs 2.0

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

No, let me explain.  Snort 1.9.0 was released last week.  The merge 
that we did last night is the basis of the Snort 2.0 development 
branch, basically Snort with several extensions that were developed at 
Sourcefire to enable us to hit gigabit speeds.  The Sourcefire 
extensions are open source and available under the GPL, just like the 
rest of Snort.  The only difference is that we spent several hundred 
thousand dollars on salaries, equipment and hard core research to bring 
this update to you instead of having me try to write it in my spare 
time. :)

The Snort 2.0-dev branch is the CVS HEAD now, the Sourcefire mods have 
been released into the open source domain as part of our "ethical 
contract" with the Open Source community to bring the best of 
commercial development contributions (money, test equipment, people who 
get paid to work on this stuff) with the best of the open source 
contributions (huge QA team, tight feedback between developers and 
users, continuous improvement of codebase).

I hope you guys will enjoy this monumental leap in performance that 
we've just contributed and that we can all continue to have fun and  
make Snort the best IDS possible!

     -Marty

On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 01:44 PM, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

> Em Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:15:18PM -0400, Chris Green escreveu:
> > The stable branch for snort.org is 1.9.0 and we're working on making
> > 2.0 stable non-sourcefire platforms.
>
> So, sourcefire's snort 2.0 is not what is in CVS HEAD nor snort.org's
> 1.9.0, right? It's a third thing.
--
Martin Roesch - Founder/CTO, Sourcefire Inc. - (410)290-1616
Sourcefire: Snort-based Enterprise Intrusion Detection Infrastructure
roesch () sourcefire com - http://www.sourcefire.com
Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org



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