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C6900 - Repeated DOS Attacks from same source ip
My home internet has been dropping to near 0MBS for the past week. I checked the logs and see the following the below DOS attacks which continue to repeat over and over. I tried calling my provide...
It won't help to block a specific incoming IP address at your modem. Your Internet connection will still be clogged by the attack. Besides, your modem is already dropping the traffic.
If Comcast won't block the traffic on their end, then the only way to stop these kinds of attacks is to change your public IP address. If you had a router that was separated from your modem, then changing the router's MAC address will often coax the ISP to assign you a new address. But with a combination modem/router, like the C6900, there's nothing you can do; you can't change the MAC address on a modem/router.
If Comcast won't block the traffic on their end, then the only way to stop these kinds of attacks is to change your public IP address. If you had a router that was separated from your modem, then changing the router's MAC address will often coax the ISP to assign you a new address. But with a combination modem/router, like the C6900, there's nothing you can do; you can't change the MAC address on a modem/router.