Ping flood
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A ping flood is a simple
DSL line and the victim on a dial-up modem). The attacker hopes that the victim will respond with ICMP "echo reply
" packets, thus consuming both outgoing bandwidth as well as incoming bandwidth. If the target system is slow enough, it is possible to consume enough of its CPU cycles for a user to notice a significant slowdown.
A ping flood can also be used as a diagnostic for network
throughput issues.[2]
See also
- INVITE of Death
- Ping of death
- Smurf attack, including fraggle attack
- Twinge attack
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