When you click ‘Advanced’ button in DoS menu, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:
a b
c d
e
Here are descriptions of every setup items:
Ping of Death (a): | 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 | Check the box to activate this DoS |
From WAN (b): | prevention mechanism. |
Port Scan (c): | Many kind of port scan methods are listed here, |
| please check one or more DoS attack methods you |
| want to prevent. |
Sync Flood (d): | Like Ping of Death, you can set the threshold of |
| when this DoS prevention mechanism will be |
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