Please wait for about 30 seconds, then click ‘OK!’ button. You’ll be back to router management interface again, and the router is ready with new settings.
When you click ‘Advanced’ button in DoS menu, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:
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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. |
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Discard Ping From | Ping is a common and useful tool to know the connection status of a specified remote network |
WAN (2): | 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. |
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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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Sync Flood (4): | This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot of fake connection request to consume the memory of |
| your server, and try to make your server become unusable. Check this box and the router will filter |
| this kind of traffic out. |
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After you finish all settings, please click ‘Apply’ button on the bottom of this page. After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:
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