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3-3-3 DoS Attack Prevention

Denial of Service (DoS) is a common attack measure, by transmitting a

great amount of data or request to your Internet IP address and server,

the Internet connection will become very slow, and server may stop

responding because it is not capable to handle too much traffics.

This router has a built-in DoS attack prevention mechanism; when you

activate it, the router will stop the DoS attack for you.

Please follow the following instructions to set DoS prevention

parameters:

Please click „Firewall‟ menu on the left of web management interface,

then click „DoS‟, and the following message will be displayed on your

web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Ping of Death (1): Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause

certain computer 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 to know

From WAN (2): the connection status of a specified remote network

device, but some malicious intruder will try to fill