| (I) Software that mounts a denial-of-service attack ("smurfing")
by exploiting IP broadcast addressing and ICMP ping packets to
cause flooding. (See: flood, ICMP flood.)
(D) ISDs SHOULD NOT use this term because it is not listed in most
dictionaries and could confuse international readers.
(C) A smurf program builds a network packet that appears to
originate from another address, that of the "victim", either a
host or an IP router. The packet contains an ICMP ping message
that is addressed to an IP broadcast address, i.e., to all IP
addresses in a given network. The echo responses to the ping
message return to the victim's address. The goal of smurfing may
be either to deny service at a particular host or to flood all or
part of an IP network.
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