Forwarded From: "Deborah A. Greenberg" <dagat_private> Network Flight Recorder is pleased to announce the official release of Network Flight Recorder Version 2.0.2 Research Features -------- This release includes several new subsystems, a few new N-Code features, and support for new operating systems: - Access Control Many organizations provide varying levels of access to their administrative tools. The NFR software allows administrators to configure access control for the GUI, including permissions to configure and query. This feature can be used in both stand-alone and distributed environments. - Web Server This mini-Web server provides a quick and easy way to run the NFR GUI. This eliminates the need to install and configure third-party Web servers. Running on all of the platforms supported by the NFR software, the NFR Web server provides all the functions needed to run the GUI. - Package Download Through the NFR GUI, users can easily download packages from the NFR Web site, or other locations on the Web. Includes utilities to help users create their own sites of NFR packages. - New Operating Systems OpenBSD 2.3 is supported, while Debian Linux 1.3 is listed as experimental. Check the NFR Web site (http://www.nfr.net/nfr/) for the list of supported, works, and experimental operating systems. - Improved Querying The NFR software now allows you to query for negatives. You can search for data that does not match other data or is not in a range of data. - Packages Loading and unloading packages and backends can now be done through the GUI, and without stopping and restarting the NFR engine. - N-Code New functions and statements provide additional capabilities. These include: - atoi function - converts an ASCII string to an integer - elem function - extracts a single member from a list - ethmac function - constructs an ethernet MAC address from a string except function - displays a string describing an exception number - formattedtime function - displays time using user-supplied formatting - split function - breaks blobs into separate blobs - strtype function - determines the kinds of characters that are found in a blob - ubyte function - returns an unsigned byte value at a specified offset from a blob - ulong function - returns an unsigned four-byte value at a specified offset from a blob - ushort function - returns an unsigned two-byte value at a specified offset from a blob - requires statement - causes N-Code not to execute until certain values have been set - support for different naming schemes for global variables to enhance distribution of backends and packages - Improved Install Executables and data are now stored outside of the NFR source tree, and users are prompted for the directory during the install process. Availability ------------ NFR Version 2.0.2 Research is now available for download from the NFR Web site: http://www.nfr.net/download/ We recommend that you first read the system requirements, release notes, and other documentation: http://www.nfr.net/nfr/ As before, the research version is available for your internal, non-commercial use. NFR Version 2.0.2 Commercial ---------------------------- The release of Version 2.0.2 Research marks a difference from previous releases of NFR software, when the commercial and research versions were the same. NFR Version 2.0.2 Commercial, which is already available, contains several additional features: - Distributed NFR Systems Busy or physically dispersed networks may need multiple NFR systems. Using NFR software in these distributed environments is now much easier through centralized management, querying, reporting, and alerting. - High Speed Networks The NFR software includes optimizations for high speed networks, such as FDDI and 100baseT. These optimizations are only included on systems BSD/OS 3.1 or OpenBSD 2.3. If you need these features or need to use NFR software in a commercial environment, and we hope you do, please contact one of the certified NFR resellers (http://www.nfr.net/products/resellers/). Feedback -------- Send suggestions, bug fixes, and so forth to feedbackat_private -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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