Re: [Bro-Dev] Option -z

2016-05-26 Thread Vern Paxson
> If one > could express such analyses easily with a few lines of script code, > that would be quite powerful for doing script inspection that's also > easy to customize. Well sure, but it's not clear one can get to that point without some significant work under the hood anyway in terms of the fea

Re: [Bro-Dev] Option -z

2016-05-26 Thread Robin Sommer
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 07:41 -0700, you wrote: > I wonder if they don't use it because it's not on their radar. It's > actually pretty handy, I see that in principle but hardcoding the functionality in C++-land doesn't seem to be the ideal way to go about things like this. If one could expres

Re: [Bro-Dev] Option -z

2016-05-26 Thread Vern Paxson
> Just removing this specific use > of finding NOTICEs, which doesn't seem anybody has been using in a > long time. I wonder if they don't use it because it's not on their radar. It's actually pretty handy, a way of telling when you think the set of NOTICEs should be X, but it's actually X'. Can

Re: [Bro-Dev] Option -z

2016-05-26 Thread Azoff, Justin S
> On May 26, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Robin Sommer wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 20:56 -0700, you wrote: > >> Well it's there in CHANGES, per the appended. But yeah looks like it never >> went anywhere beyond the original instigation, so I think removing it is >> okay. > > Ah, I didn't

Re: [Bro-Dev] Option -z

2016-05-26 Thread Robin Sommer
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 20:56 -0700, you wrote: > Well it's there in CHANGES, per the appended. But yeah looks like it never > went anywhere beyond the original instigation, so I think removing it is okay. Ah, I didn't realize this is what originally introduced the whole traversal machinery. T

Re: [Bro-Dev] Option -z

2016-05-25 Thread Vern Paxson
> Does anybody remember what Bro's option -z is for? Well it's there in CHANGES, per the appended. But yeah looks like it never went anywhere beyond the original instigation, so I think removing it is okay. OTOH, it's a pretty handy general notion, so instead pushing it further strikes me as also

[Bro-Dev] Option -z

2016-05-23 Thread Robin Sommer
Does anybody remember what Bro's option -z is for? -z|--analyze | run the specified policy file analysis Turns out the only supported "analysis" is "notice": # bro -r x.pcap -z notice Found NOTICE: PacketFilter::Dropped_Packets Found NOTICE: PacketFilter::Install_Failure Found NOTICE