[Oisf-users] [OT: Pedantic] file truncated
James Moe
jimoe at sohnen-moe.com
Thu Apr 23 06:03:28 UTC 2015
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On 04/22/2015 01:44 PM, Andreas Moe wrote:
> Not sure if you were correcting anyone [...]?
>
Yes.
> But the suricata yaml configuration treats "mb" as Megabyte/MB
> (ex. stream reassembly depth, memcaps, etc).
>
That does not make it correct, only convenient (and ambiguous) for
suricata developers. I come from an electronics engineering career;
such a lapse would create a real mess if I wrote mv (milli-volt)
instead of MV (mega-volt) just because it looks cool.
The prefixes are an international standard, as well as B (byte) and
b (bit) for computing.
See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix>.
> Keeping configurations lowercase can be very handy so not to have
> to miss something in say a grep search due to case issues.
>
IMSO (s = snooty) that is rather lame. What is wrong with "grep -i"?
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James Moe
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520.743.3936
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