IP Flood
nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026
A denial of service attack that sends a host more echo request ("ping") packets than the protocol implementation can handle.
MWE
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- IP Floods
- possessive
- IP Flood's
- pluralpossessive
- IP Floods'