How to make inline comments in snort rule file?

One of my assignments requires me to provide inline comments for the snort rule.

It should look something like:

alert \ (some comment initiator here) comment

any \ (explanation)
any \ (explanation)

and so on...

How would I make inline comments with Snort?

Solution

You might want to have a look at the Snort manual. Comments are created in the configuration and rules files with the pound sign, which is pretty typical of UNIX type things:

 alert tcp any any -> any 0 (sid:1000000;msg:"Packet to port zero.";) # Example rule with comment