3.5.2 DoS (Denial-of-Service)

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.

Parameter

Description

Ping of Death

Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention mechanism will be

 

activated. Please check the box of Ping of Death, and input the

 

frequency of threshold (how many packets per second, minute,

 

or hour), you can also input the “Burst” value, which means when

 

this number of “Ping of Death” packet is received in very short

 

time, this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated.

Discard Ping From WAN

Check the box to discard this ping request to the WAN IP

 

address of the router.

Port Scan

Many kind of port scan methods are listed here, please check

 

one or more DoS attack methods you want to prevent.

Sync Flood

Like Ping of Death, you can set the threshold of when this DoS

 

prevention mechanism will be activated.

Advanced

Click this button and you can set advanced settings of the

Settings

DoS prevention method listed above, please see section 3.5.2.1

 

‘DoS – Advanced Settings’ below.

 

 

3.5.2.1 DoS – Advanced Settings

When you click ‘Advanced Settings’ button in DoS page, the following page will be displayed on your web browser:

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