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vwwanted
Aspirant
Mar 30, 2016

DoS attack, Teardrop or derivative, Ping of Death, strange non-DHCP IP address connected to wifi

I'm getting lots of Dos attacks logged in my C3000 modem/router. They appear to be coming from inside my network, from my wifi. I keep seeing a device attached to my wifi with an IP address of 1.1.15...
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LBermann
Aspirant
Sep 19, 2018

I wanted to thank member ccunni3812 for the post tited "DoS attack and random ip addresses for iPhone"

 

I was having a similar problem with my IPad. As soon as my IPad was connected to my WiFI, I received DOS attacks - teardrop and SYN Flood. I had wiped my IPAD several times but it still came back.  Finally I figured out a few things.

 

I have my Apple device backed up and may have inadvertently backed up the "bug".  So everytime I download my backup, I got the bug again. I think I saved the bad website in my favorites. Since the DDOS attacks only happened when the wifi was turned on in my IPAD, I did the following:

 

  1. Changed the admin password on my router (yes I know, rookie move to not have done it in the first place).
  2. Turned on Access Control
  3. Deleted all unnecessary websites saved in my favorites on my IPad.
  4. Under Wan Setup, added the check mark to Disable port scan and Dos Protection from the router.
  5. Watched my logs

 

I will continue to watch my logs on a regular basis to make sure the steps taken above continue to work. Honestly, I am just so happy to have my IPad back.