Please follow the following instructions to set DoS prevention parameters:
Please click ‘Firewall’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘DoS’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:
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Here are descriptions of every setup items:
Ping of Death (1): | 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 | Ping is a common and useful tool to know |
From WAN (2): | 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, too. |
Port Scan (3): | Some malicious intruder will try to use a ‘port 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. |
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