# Bro's capabilities

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/bros-capabilities/3390>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [December 10, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bros-capabilities/3390 "2014-12-10T22:25:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Savakh\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Savakh\_S](https://community.zeek.org/u/Savakh_S)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bros-capabilities/3390/1 "2014-12-10T22:25:16Z")

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Hi all,

I have a question about the Bro’s capabilities.

Could you please detail how Bro works ? I know Bro has “protocol analysis” capabilities for some protocols and is a “behavior-based” IDS.

If I understand well, Bro can learn the way a network is used (like a machine learning) and then dissect all the protocols he can parse (http, ftp, …) to see if the fields’ values of these procoles were recorded at the learning phase ?

Thanks for your answers.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bros-capabilities/3390/2 "2022-05-06T15:42:17Z")

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