[Bro-Dev] [Proposal] Language extensions for better Broker support

2016-12-01 Thread Robin Sommer
Bro's current Broker framework has a few pretty inelegant API parts because Bro's scripting language doesn't support some of its operations well currently. I've put some thoughts together on potential language extensions to improve the situation and come to a nicer Broker framework API:

[Bro-Dev] missing worker2manager and manager2worker events

2016-12-01 Thread Aashish Sharma
I have noticed that sometimes (more often than not), not all workers see a manager2worker event or likewise not all workers report a worker2manager event on manager - missing as high as 10% of the events and as little as 1% of such events are 'missing' ie don't show up. This is puzzling since

Re: [Bro-Dev] Updating NEWS for 2.5

2016-12-01 Thread Slagell, Adam J
On Dec 1, 2016, at 4:32 AM, Jan Grashöfer wrote: >> Thanks. Let’s space out our blogs a little bit (We posted one yesterday on >> bro-pkg) and save this one for after the 2.5 release. > > As 2.5 has been released and there have already been some questions on > the

Re: [Bro-Dev] Updating NEWS for 2.5

2016-12-01 Thread Jan Grashöfer
> Thanks. Let’s space out our blogs a little bit (We posted one yesterday on > bro-pkg) and save this one for after the 2.5 release. As 2.5 has been released and there have already been some questions on the mailing list, it would be good to publish the blog post. Jan