NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
[DoS Attack: SYN/ACK Scan]
Disclaimer - I am very new to all this so you will need to dumb it down for me. I know there have been a few other posts about this and I am sorry for adding one more, but I am confused as what I...
JT_Bauer wrote:Disclaimer - I am very new to all this so you will need to dumb it down for me.
I know there have been a few other posts about this and I am sorry for adding one more, but I am confused as what I need to do to stop this.
You cannot "stop this". Can you stop people from sending you junk mail? Can you stop robocalls? All you can do is not respond to them, which is what the Orbi firewall is doing. The log indicates that the firewall rules identified a pattern in connection attempts that fit the criterion that some engineer within Netgear classifies as an "attack".
The router can be told to stop logging on the Advanced Tab, WAN Setup. "Stop Port Scan and DOS Protection." I record the logs from two Orbi systems and they both record about 60 of these "attacks" every day. Yet devices never lose internet.
Something is clearly wrong if every device connected to the Orbi loses internet at the same time. What specific ISP device is the Orbi connected to? (make and model)