Flooding (computer networking)

Flooding is used in computer network routing algorithms in which every incoming packet is sent through every outgoing link except the one it arrived on.^[1]

Flooding is used in bridging and in systems such as Usenet and peer-to-peer file sharing and as part of some routing protocols, including OSPF, DVMRP, and those used in ad-hoc wireless networks (WANETs).^[2]

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