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RAX200 Nighthawk keeps dropping wired connection. I have narrowed it down to my router. I have soft and hard reset, rebooted modem and yet it doesn’t work. Firmware is up to date. I thought it was my ...
There is a lot going on in that message, not helped by the fact that you have hitched a ride on the end of a continuing conversation about fixing problems for someone else.
If you want help sorting out your own router, then I recommend starting a fresh conversation.
I'll just stick with answering this bit.
RoundPeg wrote:
Logs indicate numerous DoS attacks from legit IP’s that I suspect are causing the restarts. Long explanation on that. Too disgusted to get into it.
Searched web for insight for like issues from other users (last stop - here). Huh… numerous. Ok, so maybe there’s a remedy.
Downgrade firmware in steps until the issues are within tolerance.. WTF? No!
Your research around here did not track down the well known stuff on those fake DoS attacks.
Search - NETGEAR Communities – DoS attacks
In essence, it has nothing to do with firmware.
Netgear's firmware is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks. Many of them are no such thing.
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. Maybe that is what you did. I just throw that in for completeness.
Here is a useful tool for that task:
IPNetInfo: Retrieve IP Address Information from WHOIS servers
In other words, they are nothing to worry about.
However, 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.
Just one other point from your long screed.
Checked firmware for any updates. All up to date. OK – makes sense, it updated on initial install.
Without knowing how you checked for updates, we have no idea if you really have the latest. The only way to know is to tell the firmware version on your device.
That is because there are several ways of checking for new firmware. Not all of them are as reliable or up to date as they might be. The best option is to visit the support pages for the router and loom at the list of releases there. Then, if there is something newer than you already have, perform a manual update.
Yeah, I had several tabs open, meant to post to another page. Didn't see a way to delete it.
Now that that's worked out... you are babbling. Are you actually here to help folks work out their router issues?
" numerous DoS attacks from legit IP’s "... means Yes, I know they are bogus, thus the work "legit". I don't think that fastly.com is trying to hack little ol me.
That tripe about firmware sounds exactly like something some dolt in customer support would say.
This thread is non-sense and useless. Yes, I posted here by accident. What's your excuse?