[Oisf-users] status of hyperscan and the ubuntu packages

[Peter Manev]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Gary Faulkner <gfaulkner.nsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do see a package on launchpad from the same contributor for Xenial,
> but it looks like it hasn't been seeing any updates. Is there any chance
> of the Hyperscan team adding Hyperscan  to a public a OBS or somewhere
> else such that folks can grab the prebuilt packages for compatible distros?

That would help us a lot indeed.

There is a test package with Hyperscan enabled Suricata 3.2.1  that I
uploaded for Zesty (only) here -
https://launchpad.net/~oisf/+archive/ubuntu/suricata-ids-ips

Feedback is welcome.



>
> On 2/28/2017 10:26 PM, Peter Manev wrote:
>> Hi Russel,
>>
>>> On 1 Mar 2017, at 03:18, Russell Fulton <r.fulton at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to include hyperscan support in the ubuntu packages?   There has been a hyperscan package in lauchpad for a while now.
>> Yes of course there are plans.
>> The question is should we enable hyperscan for only those Ubuntu distros that natively have it (I think latest/devel Ubuntu - Zesty ) or should we maintain our hyperscan pkg for the rest of the Ubuntu distros (besides Zesty) and enable it and support it on all.
>>
>> I can actually try to enable it on Zesty if you want to give some feedback that would be great?
>>
>>
>>> I would rather not have to build by own package and distribute it to all my sensors.  I would love to hear that I missed something and it is now available.
>>  Understood.
>>
>>> Russell
>>>
>>> PS.  There is now a project on github to implement a set of ruby bindings for hyperscan — Alpha release:
>>> https://github.com/eqs-nz/rubyscan
>>>
>>> Done by my son Alex.
>>>
>>> I am intending to us it for some of our log scanning applications.
>> Cool!
>>
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Regards,
Peter Manev