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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

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
IP Floods
possessive
IP Flood's
pluralpossessive
IP Floods'