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DoS Attacks RAXE500
Currently experiencing repeated DoS attacks on new RAXE500. So far, one of the RST attacks was successful at rebooting my router and exposing my disabled Access Points. I've contacted my ISP (G-Fiber...
Rune10 wrote:
Currently experiencing repeated DoS attacks on new RAXE500.
Netgear's firmware is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks. Many of them are no such thing.
Search - NETGEAR Communities – DoS attacks
Use Whois.net to see who is behind some of them and you may find that they are from places like Facebook, Google, even your ISP.
Here is a useful tool for that task:
IPNetInfo: Retrieve IP Address Information from WHOIS servers
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.
Thank you! The IPNet download is very helpful. I will try disabling the DoS logging.
Rune10 wrote:
Thank you! The IPNet download is very helpful. I will try disabling the DoS logging.
Might not be a bad idea. But may not be essential if your network is running smoothly.
If you check you log, you will see that it was mostly the usual suspects. Amazon and others who clearly aren't trying to do nasty things to you.