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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 of
handling too much traffic.
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:
Click ‘DoS’menu on the left of web management interface, under the ‘Firewall’ tab
and the following message will be displayed on your web browser.
Here is the description of every setup item:
Parameter
Description
Ping of Death
Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause certain
computers 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 ping your own router from internet,
