what is POD (Ping Of Death)?

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what is POD (Ping Of Death)?

" POD stands for Ping Of Death, is an attack, uses multiple ping packets to crash down a system, usually a default gateway, by continuously sending multiple request to the targeted system, because of POD attack a server or gateway deny all the requests and services to its clients."

POD stands for Ping Of Death, is a kind of attack which uses a Ping packet stands for packet Internet gopher and it is minimum 56 bytes in size. Many computer could not handle a ping packet larger than the maximum IP packet size, which is 65,535 bytes in size. If a system receives a packet maximum of this size it could crash. And here is the game begins. In POD we transmit multiple Ping requests to the targeted system, which continue sends request and makes a total ping packet size of more than 65,535 bytes in size. Eventually the targeted system becomes unable to handle such a massive size of ping packets and crashes down.
Usually the targeted system is Default gateway which transmit and receive all the requests coming from Intranet and Internet, in order to crash down the entire network. POD is also called DOS (Denial Of Services) attack or a kind of DOS attack.

In order to keep yourself safe and free, use anti-POD and anti-DOS attack softwares.

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