A ping flood is a basic DDoS assault in which the hacker bombards the victim with ICMP echo request (ping) packets. Ping of death works best when using ping’s flood option, which transmits ICMP packets as quickly as possible without waiting for responses.
Because the attackers can easily fake identities, ping of death attacks are highly successful. Furthermore, a ping of death intruder would need to know the target machine’s IP address.
The ping command is commonly used to check if a network resource is available. The command communicates with the network resource by sending tiny data packets.