| data packets, to make your Internet connection | |
| become very slow, even unusable. Check this box | |
| and the router will ignore all inbound PING | |
| requests. But when you activate this function, you | |
| will not be able to ping your own router from the | |
| Internet, either. | |
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 traffic which is trying to | |
| scan your Internet IP address. | |
Sync Flood (4): | This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot of | |
| fake connection requests 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. | |
Advanced | Click this button and you can set advanced | |
Settings (5): | settings of the DoS prevention method listed above. | |
| See section | |
| below. |
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Click 'Apply' (6) to save the settings:
Click 'Continue' to go back to the previous setup menu and to continue with the router setup. Click 'Apply' to reboot the router so the settings will take effect. Please wait for about 30 seconds while the router is rebooting.