[Discussion] I think everyone is describing Bro

[Thorsten Holz]

On 19.10.2008, at 06:25, Seth Hall wrote:

> Sorry, I just joined the list so I'm going to be doing some odd
> quoting from the list archive :)  I do want to point out too, that I'm
> not writing this email to downplay OISFs goals but rather to hopefully
> guide OISF toward improving an existing opensource project (Bro -  
> http://www.bro-ids.org/
>   ) that already does much of what is being discussed on this list.

I agree with Seth: why implement something completely new when you  
can extend an existing project that already contains many features  
that should be included in the resulting tool? Bro has some cool  
features and could be considered as a starting point.

Cheers,
   Thorsten