what is ping of death ?

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what is ping of death ?..

Answer / bhavin jani

POD Ping of Death, ping is and ICMP protocol normally it’s
use send and receive 64bytes , increasing this ICMP bytes
from 64 to 65,535 it call Ping Death , Generally It is ICMP
Ping Attack in security World

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what is ping of death ?..

Answer / rahul madan

ping of death a type of attack on a computer that involves
sending a malicious ping to a computer. A ping is normally
64 bytes in size or (84 bytes when IP header is considered)
Computer systems could not handle a ping packet larger than
the maximum IP packet size, which is 65,535 bytes. Sending
a ping of this size could crash the computer.
Normally use POD = Ping of Death

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what is ping of death ?..

Answer / arunanoopm

It is an attack.
Flooding of ping requests in the entire network.

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