A Pig(Snort), A Moon (Lua) and one very happy developer (Bill)
About one month ago, Snort 3.0 Alpha was released for testing in the community. If you want to be on the cutting edge of intrusion detection, packet sniffing, and keeping your system safe, check out this introduction to preparing for the future of intrusion detection.
Snort 3.0 alpha code base was released on April 5, 2007. What caught my eye is the new command line operations, now run through the Lua interpreter. This is a radically different way to interact with Snort. And while the alpha version of Snort 3.0 is still in the development phase, we can still interact with the Snort's command line via the Lua interface and decode packets passing along the wire. Nice feature, much like the Emacs text editor, where they embed the Lisp language interpreter in the editor. Another added feature is the ability to decode Ipv6 packets which is set to become the standard in the coming years.
This first release of Snort 3.0 is currently used for only testing the new features and architecture of the new code base. However, I recommend diving into the new command line interface if you are currently using, or planning on using Snort. How to install Snort 3.0 Alpha 1?
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Lua Programming
Lua is an open-source scripting language, which is designed to be embedded into applications and provides an easy to use C API.
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