The catch-and-release.bro test was failing whenever three conditions
were all true: sorting the netcontrol.log before comparing to
the baseline, the presence of LC_ALL=C in btest.cfg changes the sort
order, and sometimes the timestamp increases slightly beginning
with one of the rule_id == 5 lines.
As a result of these three conditions, the sorted order of the lines
with rule_id of 5 were different than the baseline.
Fixed by not sorting netcontrol.log, as this doesn't seem necessary.
This adds the capability for the user to attach a reason when removing
or destroying a rule. The message will both be logged in netcontrol.log
and forwarded to the responsible plugins.
Addresses BIT-1655
This commit rewrites catch and release, fixing issues with it and making
it fully cluster capable. A dedicated netcontrol_catch_release.log is
also added.
This is not quite done yet; a few more log messages are missing. There
should hopefully not be many big issues left.
This has no user-facing changes. It makes the internal handling of rules
much easier (no crazy duplicate rules in case our rules are added to
several backends).
It also fixes several open ends and small bugs in the process.
This does not really have many user-facing changes. The one big change
is that users now should initialize plugins in the
NetControl::init()
event instead of bro_init.
Once all plugins finished initializing and the NetControl framework
starts operations, the NetControl::init_done() event is raised.
Rules that are sent to NetControl before the plugins have finished
initializing are ignored - this is important when several plugins that
require external connections have to be initialized at the beginning.
Without this delay, rules could end up at the wrong plugin.
Netcontrol log now includes more information; before that, it had not
quite caught up to the new capabilities (like flow modifying and
redirection, as well as mac addresses).
Furthermore, this fixes a number of bugs with cluster mode (like
duplicate events), test failures due to updates in Bro, etc.
