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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...
fdanna wrote:
........... My first instinct was to make sure I had disabled ping response on the WAN port, which I had, but it was still pinging! ..........
If you ping from a computer attached to your wifi and ping the WAN port you will get a response. Please test from a computer not attached to Orbi to get correct results.
fdanna wrote:
.........Then come to find out, on Orbi, when you turn on VPN it re-enables ping responses. .......
You can overcome this by doing the following telnet command (it will not impact VPN):
root@RBR50:/# config get wan_endis_rspToPing
You will get the default which is 1 (means Orbi should respond to WAN ping requests)
root@RBR50:/# config set wan_endis_rspToPing=0
root@RBR50:/# config commit