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PING

In computing, short message sent over a network by one computer to check whether another is correctly connected to it. By extension, one can ‘ping’ other people – for example, checking addresses on a mailing list by sending an e-mail to all members requesting an acknowledgement.



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NetScout has also added integrated high-value analysis of IP SLA tests, such as DHCP, DNS, ICMP echo (network), TCP Socket Connect, UDP jitter for VoIP, and Web Page retrieval tests.
The worm checks for active machines to infect by sending an ICMP echo, or PING , which may result in significantly increased ICMP traffic.
A variation of the smurf attack for denial of service in which the attacker sends spoofed UDP packets instead of ICMP echo reply (ping) packets to the broadcast address of a large network.
 
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