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3-7-3 DoS 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: Here lists four kinds of DoS attacks, please select the type of DoS attack you wish this broadband router to protect, and you can select multiple types of attacks. The descriptions of every DoS attack is listed below: Item Name Ping of Death Discard Ping From WAN Port Scan Description 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. Ping is a common and useful tool to know 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 data packet, to make your internet connection become very slow, even unusable. Check this box and the router will ignore all inbound PING request, but when you activate this function, you will not be able to ping your own router from internet, too. 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 113

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3-7-3 DoS
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:
Here lists four kinds of DoS attacks, please select the type of DoS attack you wish this
broadband router to protect, and you can select multiple types of attacks.
The descriptions of every DoS attack is listed below:
Item Name
Description
Ping of Death
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 From
WAN
Ping is a common and useful tool to know
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 data packet, to make your
internet connection become very slow, even
unusable. Check this box and the router will
ignore all inbound PING request, but when you
activate this function, you will not be able to
ping your own router from internet, too.
Port Scan
Some malicious intruder will try to use a ‘port
scanner’ to know how many ports o
f your
Internet IP address are open, and they can
collect a lot of valuable information by doing