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Dos Attacks on NightHawk AC3200 Model C7800
We are having so many problems with our new router. Looking at the Log I see this DOS Attacks: [DoS attack: Echo char gen] from source: 83.97.20.35, port 51723, Thu, May 07, 2020 21:17:03 [DoS a...
Just FYI, I was told by a network engineer that DoS attacks are successful blocks by the router. So they don't mean someone got it, it means your router did its job and blocked the attempt.
However, it does overwhelm my bandwidth at times and I lose my Internet connection.
indiragrimes wrote:
However, it does overwhelm my bandwidth at times and I lose my Internet connection.
That may be the processor in the router flogging itself to death as it writes the events to logs.
Disabling that logging does not lower your defences. It does take the strain off the processor.
Oh, ok. So I can uncheck the log to write "Known DoS attacks and Port Scans" and it should help with the overload?
indiragrimes wrote:
Oh, ok. So I can uncheck the log to write "Known DoS attacks and Port Scans" and it should help with the overload?
People have reported improvements by doing that. You lose nothing by trying.
It is the same as disabling QoS and traffic metering, where the benefits don't make up for the loss in performance.
