SnortSam has to thank a lot of people. They are listed here in no particular
order (except maybe alphabetical):
Aaron Carr:
For making a development machine and PIX available for development of the
PIX plugin.
Ali Basel:
For writing the Cisco ACL plugin, the documenation for it and the SNMP-
interface-down plugin with documentation.
Bjorn Jansson:
For his great assistance in hunting down cross-endian related bug.
Christopher Lyon:
For providing a lot of info on the Netscreen commands and ideas on how to
block on Netscreen. He also made a machine available to test and debug the
plugin.
Craig Gill:
For hunting down several bugs, and great suggestions or 'feature requests'.
Dave Robinson:
For his patience during trouble shooting.
Erik Sneep:
For writing the IPFilter (ipf) plugin.
Fabrizio Tivano:
For writing the IPtables (iptables) plugin.
Hector Paterno:
For writing the PacketFilter (pf) and IPchains plugins.
Jason Amsden:
For helping cleaning the code so that it compiles smooth under various
platforms.
Jason Hershcopf:
For trouble shooting assistance and bug reports.
Jeff Boles:
For providing suggestions and info on how to block on Cisco routers.
(This was before Ali developed the plugin independently).
John Hall:
For lots of support and trouble shooting assistance with various Firewall-1
versions.
Justin Mitzimberg:
For additional information for the Cisco PIX plugin.
Marco Supino:
For trouble shooting assistance with endian problems, and compilation
of the first Solaris versions.
Michael Boman:
For feature requests, but mainly for being a great sport :)
Mike Koponick
For bugging me to change the PIX plugin so that it can log into RADIUS
configured PIXes, and for testing the code.
Paul Knibbs:
For great assistance in debugging OPSEC related code. Thanks mate!
Peter Barganski:
For trouble shooting SAM related problems.
Ralf Hildebrandt:
For debugging assistance, feature requests, and code clean-ups.
Darryl Sokoloski:
For the daemon mode and fix for socket-reuse setting and for patch adding
the Sig_ID. Also, for the idea of the USR2 signal handling, which reloads
the state file (in case external programs modified it).
Thomas Maier:
For trouble shooting and testing under Solaris. He also made a machine
available for compilation of Solaris versions. Vielen Dank!
Furthermore, he is the author of the Watchguard plugin.
Tony Nelson:
For trouble shooting and getting code to compile under various platforms.
Vincent Corriveu:
For trouble shooting and feature requests.
Bruno Scatolin:
For the EBtables plugin.
Joe Mazzie:
For the idea and documentation of the 8signs plugin.
Nima Sharifi Mehr:
For the idea and writing the ISA Server plugin. Also for the Windows
Service handling code.
Peter:
For the idea of the CHX-I plugin.
Olaf Schreck:
For picking up where Hector left off, providing a patch to support newer
versions of OpenBSD, and the Makefile.
Brent Erickson and Sergio Salazar:
For the idea, sample commands and testing of the Cisco null-route method.
Robert Rolfe
For the renewed idea of the ipfw2 plugin based on tables, development of
plugin sources and testing.
Jeff Kell:
For the idea of the USR1 signal handling which reinstates previous blocks.
Mark P Clift:
For the ISA 2004 Server plugin.
and others for providing feedback.
And finally, Marty Roesch and everyone else on the Snort Team for making such
a great Intrusion Detection System!
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MattJonkman - 09 Mar 2007