James is testing the ability of his routers to withstand DoS attacks. James sends ICMP ECHO requests to the broadcast address of his network. What type of DoS attack is James testing against his network?
Answer: A
Explanation: Smurf attacks use ICMP ECHO requests to broadcast addresses.
(A) ✅ Smurf attacks exploit ICMP ECHO requests sent to broadcast addresses.
(B) ❌ Trinoo is a DDoS tool, not specifically related to ICMP broadcasts.
(C) ❌ Fraggle uses UDP, not ICMP, for flooding attacks.
(D) ❌ SYN flood exploits TCP handshake, not ICMP broadcasts.
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A > A Smurf attack is a distributed denial-of-service attack in which large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets with the intended victim's spoofed source IP are broadcast to a computer network using an IP broadcast address.
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