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Re: Snort 3.0 - Luajit


From: oleg gv via Snort-users <snort-users () lists snort org>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:08:17 +0300

2018-02-09 22:01 GMT+03:00 Russ <rucombs () cisco com>:



On 2/9/18 11:05 AM, oleg gv wrote:


2018-02-09 17:38 GMT+03:00 Russ via Snort-users <
snort-users () lists snort org>:

LuaJIT is a hard requirement for Snort 3.0 as it is used for
configuration.  It is also used for optional script plugins for loggers,
rule options, and appid detectors.

Do you have any particular concern about LuaJIT?


No, but I want to compile snort3.0 for platform that is not comaptible for
LuaJit . Can I remove simply LuaJit support from snort3 or (more
preferable) use Lua instead of LuaJit ??

It won't build today with Lua in lieu of LuaJIT but we will look into that.


Thanks, It wold be great!



Can you tell us which platform you are working on?


e2k platform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_2000)



Thanks for reply.



There will be a beta out in a couple months.


On 2/9/18 9:16 AM, oleg gv via Snort-users wrote:

Hello, I saw dependency on luajit in snort 3.0.

Is it really nessesary, for waht reasons it is used in snort? (lua rules
mainly?)

Can I not use LuaJit at all - may be configure option may exist in future?

Or it's hardcoded firmly and snort strictly depends on it ??

Thanks!

PS: snort 3.0 release date - when? is it known?


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