Understanding the snort rule engine.

["Rinka Singh \(VLabs\) via Snort-sigs" <snort-sigs () lists snort org>]

Hi everyone,

I needed some help/advice.

I'm trying to figure out how the snort rule engine works (take the ICMP 
plug-in as an example).  I mean, how are the rulese validated, optimized 
and finally how are they then executed - are they executed in sequence 
or would rules be optimized out.
I couldn't find any documentation that would help me understand this.  
Please can someone point me at documentation that would help me 
understand this.

Thanks in advance.

--
Rinka Singh
For each good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must be posed, sifted,
sniffed, tried & discarded. A mind afraid to toy with the ridiculous
will never come up with the brilliantly original.        -David Brin
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