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What the Hell is a Dos Attack
I have an orbi rbr 50 as my router connected to an xfinity modem, we have the fastest internet available from them yet I get constant slow downs when downloading from any game service many times. The...
christianjb wrote:Anyone have a clue what the hell all of these dos atttacks are?
Others are helping with the performance issue. The term "DoS" stands for Denial of Service. The Orbi firewall detects when the same IP address sends a number of similar packets which could be interpreted as an attempt to "flood" the Orbi to the point that it is unable to respond. e.g. Denying the router the ability to perform service. The Orbi firewall discards all of those packets and puts an entry in the log.
Occasionally, the news will report that somoe group of hackers has attempted a DoS attack on some entity, such as by using thousands of "bots" to bombard Google (or someone) with email or web requests in an attempt to force them out of service.
NOTE: if some "evil doers" REALLY performed a DoS on an Orbi, then performance would drop to nearly zero and remain that way until they quit. I have accumulated all of my Orbi log files since March. Every month there are dozens and dozens of these reports, yet my Orbi works fine.
These DoS entries are normal. They are not related to your issue.