SYN Flood Attack - Course: CS-101, Fall 2024, University, Report

This assignment addresses the implementation of SYN Flood and DOS attacks. The student's task involved creating a program that simulates these attacks. The solution includes two modes of operation: SYN Flood (mode 1) and DOS attack (mode 2). The SYN Flood mode is expected to send a flood of SYN packets, while the DOS attack mode is designed to crash a server by specifying the IP address. The assignment also highlights a critical error in the provided solution, indicating that the program doesn't prompt for an IP address and therefore, the DOS attack functionality is incomplete. The solution demonstrates a need to correct the program's error and implement both modes of operation as described in the assignment brief, which specifies the requirement of selecting the mode of operation and then specifying an IP address for the attack.