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.

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.

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