[Discussion] I think everyone is describing Bro

Matt Jonkman jonkman at jonkmans.com
Sun Oct 19 15:27:05 UTC 2008


I definitely agree. There are a great number of features in bro that we
can learn from or steal. :)

Matt

Thorsten Holz wrote:
> 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
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