I’ve been down near Liverpool for the last few days, but I still found time to work on my latest project, adding support for Firestorm NIDS alert elogs to Ethereal 0.9.8. See a screen shot. Ethereal seems nicely written and I’m not having too many problems adding support for new file formats and protocols.
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Liverpool and Firestorm NIDS Ethereal support
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Linux 2.4.20, Clockspeed, Firestorm IPX and Macrostupid Coldfusion
December 9th, 2002Tags: coldfusion, dell, firestormnids, ipx, macromedia, nidsUpgraded to Linux 2.4.0 with a few patches such as Gianni’s ECSC security patches, FreeS/WAN IPSEC, CPUFreq and more. Now I’m losing time again on my Dell Inspiron 8200. Dan Bernstein’s Clockspeed isn’t helping; I don’t think it’s meant for drift such as this (caused my frequency scaling I think).
I have also been putting some time into the IPX support in Firestorm I originally started. I’ve fixed a couple of things Gianni broke during his clean-up, and have begun work on a matcher. This adds support for IPX in snort signatures, which is kinda cute.
Having lots of trouble getting Coldfusion “MX”(tm) to work on Linux for a client. It is invariably unstable and crashes thousands of times a second (see diary: Nov 25 2002). Macromedia want to charge us $500 to report this. Apparently we’ll get our money back if it is confirmed as a genuine bug. We’re considering billing for the bug hunting we’re doing for them instead. With the tens of thousands of SIG4 and SIG11 crashes we’d be quids in charging per bug. Now if only an open-source project such as PHP existed.
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.
