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4.21 Are rule keywords ORed or ANDed together?

>From Section 2.1 of the Snort Manual:

All of the elements in that make up a rule must be true for the indicated rule action to be taken. When taken together, the elements can be considered to form a logical AND statement. At the same time, the various rules in a Snort rules library file can be considered to form a large logical OR statement.

Nigel Houghton 2006-10-02
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