Broccoli is the "bro client communications library". it allows you to create client sensors for the bro intrusion detection system. broccoli can speak a good subset of the bro communication protocol, in particular, it can receive bro ids, send and receive bro events, and send and receive event requests to/from peering bros. you can currently create and receive values of pure types like integers, counters, timestamps, ip addresses, port numbers, booleans, and strings.