RFC 2196:Site Security Handbook
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... routing update, or a "flood attack" (i.e., the router is bombarded with unroutable ...
... router is bombarded with unroutable packets, causing its performance to degrade). A flood attack on a network ...
... attack on a network is similar to a flood attack on a router, except that the ...
... attack on a router, except that the flood packets are usually broadcast. An ideal flood attack ...
... flood packets are usually broadcast. An ideal flood attack would be the injection of a single packet which exploits some known flaw in ...



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