Configuration with Advanced Setup

Protection against hacker attacks

If you have activated your router's firewall functions, it will monitor and restrict the access of data arriving via the WAN connection with a function called Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI). This allows the router to identify and prevent certain types of attacks from the Internet, such as Denial-of-Service (DoS). DoS attacks are aimed at devices and networks with Internet connections. The aim is not so much to steal data but to paralyse the computer or network to such an extent that the network resources are no longer available. A typical hacker attack involves making a remote computer announce that it is acting for the paralysed machine for example and receive the data meant for you.

The router prevents the following DoS attacks: Ping of Death (Ping Flood), i SYN Flood, IP Fragment (Teardrop), Brute-Force, Land, IP Spoofing, IP

with Zero Length, TCP Null Scan (Port Scan), UDP Port Loopback, Snork etc.

You can use the Intrusion detection page to change the standard firewall settings and arrange to be notified by email about any attempted hacker attacks.

◆In the Firewall menu, select Intrusion detection.

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