Re: snort 2.9.0.3 flexresp3 and active-response

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michael Scheidell <
michael.scheidell () secnap com> wrote:

>  I noticed that starting with snort 2.9.* there are seemly two configure
> flags that affect flexresp.
>
> a) --enable-flexresp3 (similar to 2.8.6.1 flexrep and flexrep2)
>
> but there is a new one:
>
> b) --enable-active-response
>
> Q for ports/rpm maintainers:
>
> if user enabled flexresp3 during compile time, should we also enable
> active-response?
>
> is there any reason to enable one without the other?
> it appears to me that you would want both or none.

That makes sense to me.  And neither will generate responses without
additional configuration so no harm done.

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