[Bro] Is it applicapable to specific target ip using command line in bro?

Siwek, Jonathan Luke jsiwek at illinois.edu
Tue Dec 6 07:24:04 PST 2011


> bro -r xxx.pcap yyyy.bro.
> But here the bro script can't get the target ip through this kind of command.
> Is there any mechanism in bro to fulfull this requirement?

You can set any &redef variable from the command line.  e.g. if yyyy.bro contains:

    const target_ip: addr &redef;

    event bro_init()
        {
        print target_ip;
        }

Then you can do the following:

    $ bro yyyy.bro  target_ip=1.2.3.4
    1.2.3.4

Does that help?

+Jon



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