3Com BR-6574N manual Wan

Models: BR-6574N

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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

Ping is a common and useful tool to know

WAN

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

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