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Joelovinlife
Aspirant
May 03, 2020

AC2200 Orbi Router(Dos Attacks - Loss of Service)

So I'm having the popular issue of DOS attacks. I've done some research and see most Netgear Routers report these in their logs. However, I lose internet connection randomly through out the day and al...
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Mstrbig
Master
Aug 09, 2020
OrbiPhilip wrote:
How would an LOS create the illusion of a DDOS?

It would be the other way arround overwhelming DDOS attacks causing LOS.

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OrbiPhilip
Luminary
Aug 10, 2020
Mstrbig wrote:

It would be the other way arround overwhelming DDOS attacks causing LOS.

That would be my expectation as well. I was referring to Schumaku's comment, "Most occurrences are false positives, caused by _real_ connection loss on the WAN/Internet side..."

Mstrbig wrote:

Have you tried checking "Disable Port Scan and Dos Protection", under advanced, setup, WAN setup? 

 

my page is set this way and I get no DDOS reports in log or LOS: 

So actual DDOS attacks don't take it down, but the router's attempts to prevent them do?   Interesting.