3-3-3 DoS Attack Prevention
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. DoS attacks generally consist of the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. One common method of attack involves saturating the target (victim) machine, in this case the router, with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable.
The INTELLINET NETWORK SOLUTIONS 524315 Gigabit Router has a built-in DoS attack prevention mechanism to prevent a DoS attack from succeeding. We recommend activating all options.
Click the 'Firewall' menu on the left of the Web management interface, then click 'DoS' and the following screen appears:
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Items and Meanings:
Ping of Death (1): Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause certain computers 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 for knowing |
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 |
