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The first 2.6 based stable Snort_inline version was released! This is based on Snort version 2.6.1.5, but has many improvements for inline use. For a list of changes between Snort and Snort_inline, please see: http://www.inliniac.net/blog/?p=74

Changes from 2.6.1.2 BETA 1 include:

Improved stream reassembly.
Improved nfqueue support.
Improved clamav error handling.
Updated example configuration.
Added FreeBSD documentation.... read more

Thanks to Raz for saving me lots of time by providing a patch to the snort_inline-2.0.1-diff which made it apply cleanly to snort-2.0.2. I also need to thank Dennis for pointing out two bugs with the configure script.

This is an update to ensure snort_inline utilizes the latest and greatest snort code.

No changes to the source. However, there is a chance to the snort_inline.conf file
located in etc/. We had to add the following line to the configuration file in order
to ensure all packets, even ones with bad checksums, are dropped when a rule is
matched.... read more

snort_inline now uses snort-2.0.0

Logging to tcpdump binary files is now available in snort_inline-2.0.0. It can be enabled via the use of the -b flag or the log_tcpdump output plugin.