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DoS attacks RBR750
Hi there. I have been bombarded with alerts from my Orbi app that say that individual devices on my network are being targeted for attacks. The message says "Netgear Armor detected and blocked a Deni...
A curious situation since the Orbi firewall has not detected any suspicion patterns of connections attempts. (which do happen constantly and cannot be stopped)
The inference is that something inside the network (on the LAN) is doing something screwy. If these MAC addresses do not match any device on the network, I would suspect rogue software that is generating a lot of data packets with bogus MAC addresses so that the packets cannot be traced back to the device.
Is the target always the same device?
If it is in fact an internal ipv6 ip address, I don't know how considering I have ipv6 disabled.
AngryGreenGiant wrote:
If it is in fact an internal ipv6 ip address, I don't know how considering I have ipv6 disabled.
The IPv6 router option pertains to whether the router will process IPv6 traffic, and has no effect on the LAN subnet. Many devices create IPv6 addresses by default unless they are specifically told not to. In Windows, for example, there are numerous network settings which can be enabled or disabled:
Mac's may have similar choices. Smartphones, tablets, Internet of Things (IoT) devices usually very few.
Suppose you decide to remove your telephone, and thus have no means to make or receive calls. Can you and a neighbor still shout at each other from one yard to the other? Sure thing. IPv6 devices can communicate all they want on that small local subnet. Once any of them attempt to use IPv6 to access the rest of the world, the router will ignore them unless IPv6 is enabled.