Bro-IDS ready for OpenBSD 5.2?

Zeek
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Hi all,

I have two OpenBSD 5.2 IDS sensors with snort installed acting as a
transparent bridges with CARP configured. After some time testing
Bro-IDS under a one CentOS sensor, I would like to try bro-ids under
these OpenBSD boxes as a workers and one CentOS host as a proxy and
management node but according to Bro-IDS FAQ:

"Generally, please note that we do not regularly test OpenBSD builds. We
appreciate any patches that improve Bro’s support for this platform."

Then, is not Bro-IDS ready for OpenBSD platforms for production
environments??

Thanks.

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We have not included OpenBSD in our nightly build & test environment, but have considered it. Mostly we test against common Linux distros, FreeBSD, and the latest Mac OS. So right now we can't really say as we haven't specifically tested it for OpenBSD compatibility.

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Thanks Adam. Th only prerequisite is to use gmake instead of make that
comes with openbsd, correct??

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Thanks Adam. Th only prerequisite is to use gmake instead of make that
comes with openbsd, correct??

It should just be the top-level Makefile that depends on gmake, but you don't have to use it. After `./configure`, you can change in to the "./build" directory and instead use the Makefile there for doing the typical `make` and `make install` tasks.

    Jon

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Thanks Jon.