[Oisf-users] [OT: Pedantic] file truncated
Peter Manev
petermanev at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 15:22:57 UTC 2015
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:03 AM, James Moe <jimoe at sohnen-moe.com> wrote:
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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.
James - do you mind opening a bug report for that - since those are
the abbreviations in the default yaml config.
> 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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Peter Manev
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