Flooding (computer networking) Totally Explained

Everything about Flooding Computer Networking totally explained

Flooding is a simple routing algorithm in which every incoming packet is sent through every outgoing link.

Advantages

If a packet can be delivered, it'll (probably multiple times).
Since flooding naturally utilizes every path through the network, it'll also use the shortest path.
This algorithm is very simple to implement.

Problems

Flooding can be costly in terms of wasted bandwidth and, as in the case of a Ping flood or a Denial of service attack, it can be harmful to the reliability of a computer network.

Duplicate packets may circulate forever, unless certain precautions are taken:

Use a hop count or a time to live count and include it with each packet. This value should take into account the number of nodes that a packet may have to pass through on the way to its destination.
Have each node keep track of every packet seen and only forward each packet once.

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