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Disable Port Scan and DoS Protection Misleading
Having noticed a slowdown in my internet and frequent lag, I checked my logs only to discover I'm getting DDoS attacks nearly every 15 minutes! They IPs are from all over the world. My first instinct...
I did another test. Turned on the "debug log", did some pings from my mobile phone over LTE, then looked at the WAN capture using Wireshark. Even though my mobile phone app showed ping responses, I did NOT see any ping requests to my Orbi in the WAN log (or any ping responses). I did see my Orbi making some ping requests and getting responses but not involving my mobile phone.
So now I am more confused than ever. The Orbi log contains zillions of ARP requests and some ICMPv6 traffic, but not those ping requests. Does the Orbi not log any packets that have been discarded? Hmmm. Guess I could repeat the experiment and capture a WAN log when the Orbi is told to respond to ping requests. (Maybe later today.)
For now, however, I regard this as a mystery.
CrimpOn wrote:
I did another test. Turned on the "debug log", did some pings from my mobile phone over LTE, then looked at the WAN capture using Wireshark. Even though my mobile phone app showed ping responses, I did NOT see any ping requests to my Orbi in the WAN log (or any ping responses). I did see my Orbi making some ping requests and getting responses but not involving my mobile phone.
So now I am more confused than ever. The Orbi log contains zillions of ARP requests and some ICMPv6 traffic, but not those ping requests. Does the Orbi not log any packets that have been discarded? Hmmm. Guess I could repeat the experiment and capture a WAN log when the Orbi is told to respond to ping requests. (Maybe later today.)
For now, however, I regard this as a mystery.
It sounds like your cable modem is doing the routing. You might have a double NAT situation.