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Chapter 9
Network Security
9. 1. Firewall & DoS Protection
DoS Protection can protect your home network against DoS attacks from flooding your
network with server requests. Follow the steps below to configure DoS Protection.
1.
Visit
http://tplinkwifi.net
, and log in with the password you set for the router.
2.
Go to
Advanced
>
Security
>
Firewall & DoS Protection
.
Note:
DoS Protection
and
Traffic Statistics
must be enabled at the same time, you can go to
Advanced
>
System
Tools
>
Traffic Statistics
to enable traffic statistics function.
3.
Enable
DoS Protection
.
4.
Set the protection level (
Low
,
Middle
or
High
) for
ICMP-Flood Attack Filtering
,
UDP-
Flood Attack Filtering
and
TCP-Flood Attack Filtering
.
•
ICMP-Flood Attack Filtering
- Enable to prevent the ICMP (Internet Control
Message Protocol) flood attack.
•
UDP-Flood Attack Filtering
- Enable to prevent the UDP (User Datagram
Protocol) flood attack.
•
TCP-Flood Attack Filtering
- Enable to prevent the TCP (Transmission Control
Protocol) flood attack.
5.
Click
Save
to make the settings effective.
