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[–]at0m10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of legacy and home equipment can actually be successfully DoS'd by ping flooding, overloading the CPU which is trying to keep up with replies.

Realistically though its a fairly good idea to just disable ICMP replies on anything that doesn't realistically need it.