Re: var or ipvar?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Ipvar, for ips. Portvar for ports. 

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On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Nicholas Bogart <nickybzoss () gmail com> wrote:

> Last I remember on this from the manual you only use ipvar if you are working in an IPv6 evironment and have enabled 
> snort for IPv6.  If you have it turned off then you can continue and are encouraged to still use var.
>  
>  
> Nick
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:56 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:
> > var used to be used for most all var definitions... then work was being done for
> > IPv6 and ipvar was created... since then, it seems that ipvar has been retained
> > for all and var is simply no longer used...
> >
> > is this accurate?
> >
> > why is var not retained as an alias for ipvar? systems have been breaking all
> > around us and it is only just now that we're starting to find this possibly
> > being the problem :(
> >
> > will it hurt to have both var and ipvar pointing to the same definitions??
> >
> > will older snorts fall over because of ipvar being introduced into their
> > environment before they are ready for it?
> >
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