Re: Download packet

Yoann Vandoorselaere <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.prelude.user
Message-ID <1204623259.5965.224.camel@arwen>
Hello Konrad,

Le jeudi 21 février 2008 à 00:05 +0100, Konrad Kosmowski a écrit : 
> > You already have packet payload in Prewikka,
> 
> In what format it is stored? I've looked at database and it is BLOB
> type (obviously) but for packets - how are they stored in IDMEF spec?
> Seriously I am ignorant. Please explain. ;)

We store the different packet headers fields as additional data within
IDMEF messages (section 4.2.4.6 of the IDMEF RFC).

> > so I don't expect that this  would be hard to implement.  Still, the question
> > would be, "who is gonna write the code?"  It's not a widely-requested
> > feature, so it probably wouldn't be on the hot list.
> 
> Heh the ability to analyze a packet data with a tool that can
> interpret it in various formats/protocols etc. like  Wireshark is a
> feature that IMHO is essential.
> 
> IMHO it would be extremely hard to implement what Wireshark does in
> Prewikka so it makes no sense to implement it there - Wireshark does
> it extremely well so just pass the file from Prewikka to client
> application and you are done with this feature.
> 
> I compare Prelude to Mc Afee IPS systems that are quite commercial
> standards these days and these systems do that. So it IMHO is an
> feature to copy.
> 
> >  Your best bet is to open a ticket on Trac asking for the feature to be
> >  added.
> 
> I'll try. :)

This would be a great functionality to add to the Snort sensor, and it
should be pretty easy to implement. 
Please don't hesitate to open a ticket for this enhancement.

Regards,

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