In computer networking a packet drop attack or blackhole attack is a type of denial-of-service attack accomplished by dropping packets. Computer networking is the Engineering Discipline concerned with communication between Computer systems or devices Networking routers In Information technology, a packet is a formatted unit of Data carried by a Packet mode Computer network. The attack can be accomplished either selectively (e. g. by dropping packets for a particular network destination, a packet every n packets or every t seconds, or a randomly selected portion of the packets, which is called "Gray hole attack") or in bulk (by dropping all packets).

See also

• Black hole (networking)

References

• Raffo, Daniele Security Schemes for the OLSR Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks, Chapter 3, 3. In networking, black holes refer to places in the network where incoming traffic is silently discarded (or "dropped" without informing the source 1. 2 Incorrect traffic relaying.

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