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Wifi 6 tri band mesh router nighthawk Dos attack
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has ever had the problem where your Wi-Fi was creating false positives on incoming traffic I have the Tri-Band 6 mesh router , I also notice that around 7 and 8 pm my ro...
Zegroft wrote:
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has ever had the problem where your Wi-Fi was creating false positives on incoming trafficApart from the restarts, what do you mean by that?
If you are looking at the router's logs are notoriously unreliable.
Netgear's firmware is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks.
If these events are slowing down your router, that may be because it is using up processor time as it writes the events to your logs. Anything that uses processor power – event logging, QoS management, traffic metering – may cause slowdowns. Disable logging of DoS attacks and see if that reduces the problem. This does not prevent the router from protecting you from the outside world.
Zegroft wrote:
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has ever had the problem where your Wi-Fi was creating false positives on incoming traffic
Apart from the restarts, what do you mean by that?
If you are looking at the router's logs are notoriously unreliable.
Netgear's firmware is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks.
If these events are slowing down your router, that may be because it is using up processor time as it writes the events to your logs. Anything that uses processor power – event logging, QoS management, traffic metering – may cause slowdowns. Disable logging of DoS attacks and see if that reduces the problem. This does not prevent the router from protecting you from the outside world.