Hello list followers,

a very happy new year to all of you!

I had some free time during the christmas days and backed a new testing
image for suricata:

https://people.ipfire.org/~stevee/suricata/Images/ipfire-2.21.x86_64-suricata-beta4-full-core127.iso

It contains a lot of bug fixes and improvements suggested on this list.

As usual please do a lot of testing and report back any issues and
suggestions.

Thanks in advance,

-Stefan


> Hello list followers,
> 
> some time ago development for the new implementation of the Intrusion
> Detection functionality in IPFire has been started.
> 
> The main goal, in a nutshell, was to give IPFire a modern, feature-
> rich 
> and user-friendly Intrusion Detection Engine. During this progress,
> the
> detection framework has been replaced - now suricata is used instead
> of
> snort.
> 
> Suricata uses a very modern and multi-threaded detection engine with
> support to perform actions on malicious traffic. So it provides the
> functionality of detecting any kind of intrusion attempts and the
> ability of guardian to block them under the same hood.
> 
> It was a lot of work, but finaly I'm happy to announce the first test
> version. It is almost feature complete and without any kind of bigger
> issues.
> 
> Because Intrusion Detection is a key feature of a firewall system, a
> lot of testing is required until the new implementation can become
> part
> of IPFire - therefore we need your help!
> 
> Download the test image (
> https://people.ipfire.org/~stevee/suricata/Images/), do a lot of hard
> testing and provide your feedback or suggestions on the develoment
> mailing list (https://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development).
> 
> If you find any bugs please file them in the IPFire Bugtracker (
> https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/).
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> -Stefan