Edimax BR-6524n, Manual

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3-5-2-3-3 DoS
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:
Here lists four kinds of DoS attacks, please select the type of DoS attack
you wish this broadband router to protect, and you can select multiple
types of attacks.
The descriptions of every DoS attack is listed below:
Item Name
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 with a
lot of PING request data packet, to make your
internet connection become very slow, even
unusable. Check this box and the router will
ignore all inbound PING request, but when you
activate this function, you will not be able to