Re: Snort 2.9.0.3 Now Available

[vincent () cojot name]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, waldo kitty wrote:

> i tend to agree fully... but i also have to wonder why, if ipvar is necessary,
> that it is not enabled for IPv4 only setups and that it requires IPv6 which is
> definitely not widespread or in use in many locations...

I did some testing with the '--enable-ipv6' rpms last night and it appears 
that most of the 'var' statements in snort's default config file were 
replaced by 'ipvar' statements. I guess it 'just worked' because the 
default config file in the rpm was automagically adapted when I compiled 
snort with '--enable-ipv6' but I surely don't want to break everyone 
else's config files if they need to be edited (as in 's/^var/ipvar/'). So 
unless the users can leave their config files as they were with the older 
rpms, it's a no-go to enable ipv6 by default in these rpms. Any ideas?

Thanks,

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