[Bro] timely question about tables

Robin Sommer robin at icir.org
Wed Feb 7 14:52:24 PST 2007


On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 15:26 -0600, Mike Dopheide wrote:

> For table attributes such as &create_expire and &write_expire, is 
> elapsed time based on real time or network time?

It's network time but note that the timeouts actually give *minimum*
intervals before elements are expired; elements may be kept longer
than the interval specifies, especially for large tables. 

Robin

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