• Landless2029@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    When my cousin learned about Ping at school in the 2000s he setup ping gateway -t on all the computers in his highschool class.

    Took down the school network for the day. He didn’t get in trouble I think. Just a laugh from the school admin (they knew each other and he volunteered there). Admin blocked ping after that.

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      4 hours ago

      Man they really need to check for loops in the network, that sounds like a feedback loop. Although my experience only goes back to like 2012 so it might have been a older hardware thing

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      11 hours ago

      What was the rate of packets sent? Modern ping is typically setuided and has a limit of 1 per second if you’re not root.