Re: [Netpass-users] NetPass progress report?

[jeff m. <jcm...@os...>]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:18, Julian Y. Koh wrote:
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> We are particularly interested in 2 areas of NetPass progress:
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> 1.) Snort/general external API functionality
> 	Obviously snort integration is on the to-do list.  My question is
> when is
> this projected to be completed, 

the API feature should be available this week or next. 

> and how extensible is this API going to be?
> ie, will we be able to use any external program to send quar/unquar commands
> to NetPass?


yes. 


>2.) macscan
> 	We've come across multiple situations where a user has a
> hublet/switchlet
> connected to a wall port w/ only one machine connected and registered/scanned
> just fine.  Later, the user brings on a second machine, but because link
> never went down on the port, that machine is not registered or scanned.  It
> was my understanding that the macscan process was supposed to take care of
> this situation by periodically looking at all the switch ports and quar'ing
> any of them that had unregistered MAC addresses connected.  When will this be
> up and running?
> 


the macscan piece needs testing before i can give the go-ahead to use
it. the biggest issue with it concerns the use of threads. our success
at using perlthreads has been mixed. we recently begun using perl 5.8.5
(we were on 5.8.3) and that seems to have improved things. under 5.8.3,
long-running scripts using threads wouldnt run very long ;)

the API is our primary concern right now. if we can, we'll finish up
macscan within the next week and a half as well.