As you may know, Snort, the most famous open source IDS(Intrusion detection System) are now promoting snort 3.0. The new software release currently still in beta. However, through the design and the description posted, the open source giant intends to be a total platform of all packet based software.
The Snort 3.0 emphasized the lower level native support for IPv6, MPLS and GRE. This helps the carrier users have a chance to put snort into the newest networks for wired and wireless data. To be a platform, this is necessary.
Inline snort previously is an independent project, now the inline feature integrated into Snort 3.0 as standard offering. The multi-threading and subsystem architecture shows ambitious to let plugins or component from 3rd parties to easily port to.
So the snort 3.0 is actually called SnortSP 
3.0 which means Snort Security Platform.
As linux unified the core of many operating system distribution, can SnortSP 3.0 unify the core of security systems?
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