zeek/testing/btest/Baseline/core.icmp.icmp-context
Jon Siwek 6908d1b919 GH-1019: deprecate icmp_conn params for ICMP events
Previously, a single `icmp_conn` record was built per ICMP "connection"
and re-used for all events generated from it.  This may have been a
historical attempt at performance optimization, but:

  * By default, Zeek does not load any scripts that handle ICMP events.

  * The one script Zeek ships with that does handle ICMP events,
    "detect-traceroute", is already noted as being disabled due to
    potential performance problems of doing that kind of analysis.

  * Re-use of the original `icmp_conn` record tends to misreport
    TTL and length values since they come from original packet instead
    of the current one.

  * Even if we chose to still re-use `icmp_conn` records and just fill
    in a new TTL and length value each packet, a user script could have
    stored a reference to the record and not be expecting those values
    to be changed out from underneath them.

Now, a new `icmp_info` record is created/populated in all ICMP events
and should be used instead of `icmp_conn`.  It also removes the
orig_h/resp_h fields as those are redundant with what's already
available in the connection record.
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output GH-1019: deprecate icmp_conn params for ICMP events 2020-07-10 11:06:28 -07:00