Edimax BR-6428nS User Manual - Page 107
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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 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 106