William-Metcalf on Inliniac

Suricata development update

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:39:48 +0000

The last months we’ve been working hard on improving Suricata. So hard actually, that we’ve drifted a bit from our original goal of doing a 1.0.3 “maintenance” release. Instead, the new release will be 1.1beta1. The change to 1.1 is to indicate the large number of changes, the beta1 is to … indicate the large number of changes :)

As you may know, Will Metcalf moved on to join Qualys. A significant loss to our project as Will was one of our founding members and is hard to replace in his role as QA lead. Not having a full time QA person on the team right now is a reason for us to decide we’re in need of a beta cycle for the next release.

OISF engine development update

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:17:32 +0000

The last month has been crazy busy. Development of the engine is progressing nicely. My own role has been assigning tasks to our coders, guiding them, reviewing their work, integrating it and of course write code. We currently have nine people coding, not all full time though, and are still looking for more coders.

Progress has been made on a number of things: we have many more decoders, threading updates, a stats subsystem, stream tracking and reassembly, a L7 protocol parser framework and many more unittests. We’re working on OpenCL hardware accelaration, although we’re running into driver issues, so that may take some time before it’s usable.

Friendly pcap parsing

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:47:28 +0000

Over at his weblog node5, William Metcalf has written about a nice script he created for automagically extracting full content data for certain ip’s and ip ranges from large amounts of pcap data. It will also create some nice output for the data. Check out his post at node5 and the script here at bleedingthreats. Great to see you blogging Will! :)

Snort_inline 2.6.1.5 released

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:55:29 +0000

Finally, after many months of development and testing, Snort_inline 2.6.1.5 has been released. It’s the first stable release in almost a year and also the first stable release based on Snort 2.6. William sent the announcement:

snort_inline-2.6.1.5 released

List,

I know it has been a long time since we have had a non-beta release,
but what can I say? Victor and I have both been busy in our personal
and professional lives. If you have been running the version of code
in SVN, there are no major updates with this release other than a
memleak fix for stream4inline. I don't think this gets said often
enough, so I would like to thank Sourcefire for all the hard work they
put into snort and the snort rule sets for which I and the rest of the
community greatly benefit.

Regards,

Will

snort_inline-2.6.1.5
http://snort-inline.sourceforge.net/download.html

Differences between snort in inline mode and snort_inline
http://www.inliniac.net/blog/?p=74

Go and get it! :)