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ICMP Flood
ICMP flood, also known as Ping flood or Smurf attak, is type of Denial of Service attack that sends large amounts of (or just over-sized) ICMP packets to a machine in order to attempt to crash the TCP/IP stack on the machine and cause it to stop responding to TCP/IP requests.
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