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IP Flood

nounid 3032·updated May 9, 2026
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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

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
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A denial of service attack that sends a host more echo request ("ping") packets than the protocol implementation can handle.

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