Snort and quickassist

[grandrivers]

I assume snort supports intel quickassist and if it does any clue what bump it will give going from a d525 to a c2558 ?

[Protoman]

I think the answer is not quite yet…

I found this information in https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86732.0

@gonzopancho:

QuickAssist isn't supported in pfSense today, but we are actively working on a driver (with deep assist from Intel) to go back into the FreeBSD tree.

I believe this is the last hoop to jump through before it is supported however, since according to this article it has been integrated in Snort since 2010 (Snort 2.9 Beta).

http://www.securityweek.com/sourcefire-accelerates-snort-performance-intel-pattern-matching-technology-faster-detection