Difference between smurf and ping of death ?
sunnysysadm
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Can anyone explain the difference between a smurf attack and a ping-of-death attack ? I have a printout of the technotes, the Syngress book, etc and have researched this, but it is still confusing to me. I have my test tomorrow and would appreciate any clarification.
Sunny
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yoyomamas2
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A Ping of Death is one large icmp packet over 65k, a Smurf attack is many small icmp packets hitting the computer.sunnysysadm wrote:Can anyone explain the difference between a smurf attack and a ping-of-death attack ? I have a printout of the technotes, the Syngress book, etc and have researched this, but it is still confusing to me. I have my test tomorrow and would appreciate any clarification.
Sunny