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Protocols

The next field in a rule is the protocol. There are four protocols that Snort currently analyzes for suspicious behavior - TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IP. In the future there may be more, such as ARP, IGRP, GRE, OSPF, RIP, IPX, etc.


Steven Sturges 2007-10-04
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