RFC 2196:Site Security Handbook
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flooding


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... legitimate users' data. There are two common ways this can be done: by attacking the routers and by flooding the network with extraneous traffic ...
... Unfortunately, there is no adequate protection against a flooding attack, or a misbehaving host or router which is flooding ...
... flooding attack, or a misbehaving host or router which is flooding the network. Fortunately, this type of attack ...



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