DG-BR4400AC User Manual
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3-3-3 DoS Attack Prevention
Denial of Service (DoS) is a common attack measure, by transmitting a great amount
of data or request to your Internet IP address and server, the Internet connection will
become very slow, and server may stop responding because it is not capable to handle
too much traffics.
This router has a built-in DoS attack prevention mechanism; when you activate it, the
router will stop the DoS attack for you.
Please follow the instructions mentioned below to set DoS prevention parameters:
Please click ‘
Firewall
’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click
‘
DoS
’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:
Here is the description of every setup item:
Item
Description
Ping of Death
Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause certain
computer to stop responding. Check this box and the router
will filter this kind of packet out.
Discard Ping
From WAN
Ping is a common and useful tool to know the connection
status of a specified remote network device, but some
malicious intruder will try to fill your network bandwidth
