Inspirated

After posting the Bro port for OpenWRT on my blog roughly two years ago, I didn’t realize some people were already actually using it on their routers.

I had created an updated version of the port which I hadn’t posted on the blog. Digging in my archived files I finally found it today along with its sources:

• openwrt-bro-2.3.1.tar.gz
• bro_2.3.1-1_ar71xx.ipk

Word of caution though, my notes indicate that one of the default scripts was leaking memory and I never got around to figuring out which one. The workaround was to launch Bro in barebone mode with -b switch, which would prevent loading of default scripts.

# cat test.bro

event bro_init()
{
	print "Hello World!";
}

event new_connection(c: connection)
{
	print "New connection created";
}

# bro test.bro

Hello World!

# bro -C -b -i br-lan test.bro

Hello World!
New connection created
New connection created

If someone has cycles to spend and figure out which default script is leaking memory we can update the package to address the bug.