TL-R460Cable/DSL Router User Guide

router's password. After successfully entering the password, you will be able to access the router's web-based utility.

Note: Be sure to change the router's default password to a very secure password.

5.7.6 Advanced Security

Using Advanced Security page (shown in figure 5-27), you can protect the router from being attacked by TCP-SYN Flood, UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood from LAN.

Figure 5-27 Advanced Security settings

Packets Statistic interval (5 ~ 60) - The default value is 10. Select a value between 5 and 60 seconds in the pull-down list. The Packets Statistic interval value indicates the time section of the packets statistic. The result of the statistic used for analysis by SYN Flood, UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood.

DoS protection - Enable or Disable the DoS protection function. Only when it is enabled, will the flood filters be effective.

Enable ICMP-FLOOD Attack Filtering - Enable or Disable the ICMP-FLOOD

Attack Filtering.

ICMP-FLOOD Packets threshold: (5 ~ 3600) - The default value is 50. Enter a value between 5 ~ 3600 packets. When the current ICMP-FLOOD Packets numbers are beyond the set value, the router will start up the blocking function immediately.

Enable UDP-FLOOD Filtering - Enable or Disable the UDP-FLOOD Filtering. UDP-FLOOD Packets threshold: (5 ~ 3600) - The default value is 50. Enter a

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