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Easy Fix for Intermittent Connections, Slowdowns, Timeouts - DNS related, SRX5308
I'm documenting this here, because I didn't see anything about it in my forum searches, and I believe that it's likely to be a common problem with an easy fix. I had just installed a new Netgear SR...
Excellent advice here, unchecking "Block UDP flood" on a FVS318N completely and totally cleared up numerous issues as described ... Intermittent Connections, Slowdowns, Timeouts.
I did some testing to set a rule to allow all outbound "DNS:UDP" from all lan users, that had no apparent effect with Block UDP flood enabled. That makes you wonder what UDP packets are triggering the flood detection threshold. Was seeing this with one VoIP ATA and one Win 7 client on the lan.
I did some testing to set a rule to allow all outbound "DNS:UDP" from all lan users, that had no apparent effect with Block UDP flood enabled. That makes you wonder what UDP packets are triggering the flood detection threshold. Was seeing this with one VoIP ATA and one Win 7 client on the lan.
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