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DDOS using hping tool

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What is a Ping (ICMP) flood attack?                 ICMP-INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), which is utilized in a Ping Flood attack, is an internet layer protocol used by network devices to communicate A ping flood is a denial-of-service attack in which the attacker attempts to overwhelm a targeted device with ICMP echo-request packets, causing the target to become inaccessible to normal traffic.                When the attack traffic comes from multiple devices, the attack becomes a DDoS or distributed denial-of-service attack. Flood Attack: The ping flood attack aims to overwhelm the target device's ability to respond to the high number of requests and overload the network connection with bogus traffic. Installation:           https://www.kali.org/tools/hping3 Commands: hping3 -1(ICMP) ...