Edimax BR-6228nC, User Manual

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scanner to know how many ports of your
Internet IP address are open, and they can
collect a lot of valuable information by doing
so. Check this box and the router will block all
traffics which are trying to scan your Internet
IP address.
Sync Flood This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot
of fake connection request to consume the
memory of your server, and try to make your
server become unusable. Check this box and
the router will filter this kind of traffic out.
If you need to specify the details of every DoS attack, please click Advanced Settings button,
and the following settings will appear:
The descriptions of every setup item are listed below:
Item Name
Description
Ping of Death Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention
mechanism will be activated. Please check the
box of Ping of Death, and input the frequency
of threshold (how many packets per second,
minute, or hour), you can also input the Burst
value, which means when this number of Ping
of Death packet is received in very short time,
this DoS prevention mechanism will be
activated.
Discard Ping From
WAN Check the box to activate this DoS prevention
mechanism.