[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-05-30 Thread Vern Paxson (JIRA)
Vern Paxson created BIT-1407: Summary: -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded Key: BIT-1407 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1407 Project: Bro Issue Tracker

[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Robin Sommer (JIRA)
[ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1407?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=20900#comment-20900 ] Robin Sommer commented on BIT-1407: --- Yeah, I can see that. I think the main problem is th

[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Seth Hall (JIRA)
[ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1407?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Seth Hall updated BIT-1407: --- Attachment: signature.asc We could alternately take the additional step of moving command line argument pr

[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Robin Sommer (JIRA)
[ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1407?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=20902#comment-20902 ] Robin Sommer commented on BIT-1407: --- If we had that, the '-f' switch would probably be ad

[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Vern Paxson (JIRA)
[ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1407?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=20903#comment-20903 ] Vern Paxson commented on BIT-1407: -- While there's an appeal to processing arguments in script-

[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Vern Paxson (JIRA)
[ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1407?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=20904#comment-20904 ] Vern Paxson commented on BIT-1407: -- Also, regarding the policy script adding the -f flag: how

Re: [Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Robin Sommer
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 15:31 -0500, you wrote: > Jira, I couldn't find the thread). But to revisit: the "-f filter" > option silently does nothing if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't > loaded (so the scenario here is using -b to suppress its automatic > loading). This can lead to seriously

Re: [Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Seth Hall
> On Jun 1, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Robin Sommer wrote: > > Yeah, I can see that. I think the main problem is the interaction > between the command-line option and script, something that's rare > (i.e., that the command-line option is tight that closely to a script > being loaded). I would actually s

Re: [Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1407) -f silently fails if base/frameworks/packet-filter isn't loaded

2015-06-01 Thread Robin Sommer
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:20 -0500, you wrote: > We could alternately take the additional step of moving command line > argument processing into Bro scripts. I don’t know how exactly we’d > solve this particular problem, but it should be reasonably solvable > that way. If we had that, the '-f