[DragosD]

Is it possible to ping a server that much that is crashes, reffering to source engine games like Team fortress 2 or Counter strike Source

[Snarf]

You mean ddos a server by spamming it with ping requests? I guess if they don't have protection against it it's a maybe? I don't run source engine servers so I'm not quite sure. I mean I guess if you had some flimsy hardware or the requests were frequent enough it would work.

[DragosD]

I heard about those a long tim ago and heard they were very bad for server computer, pinging it so hard, crashing server any minute. I saw one last day on a server of my friends, his computer shut down due to the ping and lag ( it isnt a good computer )

[Snarf]

Then he should install ddos protection.

[DragosD]

He has, but the point is that is there any such program known ( to intercept the DDoS attacks and give the attacker the ping)

[Snarf]

I wouldn't know.

[Drunken F00l]

Any network monitoring tool (wireshark, tcpdump, etc.) will show you the source address of incoming packets.

[Sekioh]

Most valve games actually already temporarily block incoming from your IP if you hit them too much from the Server Browser. The "View Info" for a server, you can hit the refresh if it's full so you can see if theres a slot available and the scores. If you mash that more than 10 times in like half a minute, it "Server Stopped Responding" for a while like 1 to 2 minutes on a cooldown. That /might/ be coded clientside though. I do know it ducks waves of info requests though. Using outside programs just pinging not sure if it will stop it though.