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Which attack floods a network with ICMP echo requests to consume bandwidth?
- Smurf Attack
- Ping Flood
- SYN Flood
- All of these
Answer: All of these
ICMP-based DoS attacks include: Ping Flood (direct echo request flood), Smurf Attack (spoofed broadcast amplification), and variants. Mitigation: rate limiting ICMP, disabling broadcast responses, ingress filtering, and DDoS protection services. Network monitoring detects abnormal traffic patterns.