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.
The hook name is NetControl::acld_rule_policy and allows the
modification of acld rules before they are sent out to the network.
This allows, e.g. network policies to use nullzero instead of drop in
certain circumstances.
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.
Events now generally carry the unique ID of the backend that is given
during initialization; there are a few more functions and other
bugfixes.
A few netcontrol tests are still broken (mostly due to a pcap update in
msater).
Broke out the stats collection into a bunch of new Bifs
in stats.bif. Scripts that use stats collection functions
have also been updated. More work to do.
Fixed more typos, reformatted the code examples to remove the
horizontal scroll bars, and removed some redundant sections that were
just outdated copies of information in the auto-generated reference
docs.
I reworked this a bit:
- Moved the globals into a new Pcap::* namespace, and renamed them
slightly.
- Moved the definitions of the globals into pcap/const.bif.
- Also moved the existing 'snaplen' into Pcap::* and removed
SnapLen() from the PktSrc API (it's really a pcap thing).
- Likewise moved the existing functions precompile_pcap_filter,
install_pcap_filter, and pcap_error, into Pcap::*.
- Did some more refactoring for the pcap code.
* 'master' of https://github.com/knielander/bro:
Refactored patch (removed options, less ambiguous name)
Allow Bro to run in fanout mode.
Allow libpcap buffer size to be set manually.
Allow Bro to run in fanout mode.
Allowed libpcap buffer size to be set via configuration.
I just noticed - the OpenFlow events also really should send the
instance of openflow that they are with them. That is a... tad
complicated though due to a number of reasons (among others how the
events are currently generated), so this will have to wait for a bit.
