Security Best Practice: Protect Yourself from Ping of Death Attacks

Protect Yourself from Ping of Death Attacks A Ping of Death (POD) is a type of attack on a computer that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. A ping is normally 56 bytes in size (or 84 bytes when IP header is considered); historically, many computer systems could not handle a ping packet larger than the maximum IP packet size, which is 65,535 bytes. Sending a ping of this size could crash the target computer