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Kakusu
Apr 03, 2022Aspirant
How to get AC3200 (C7800) to not respond to probe attacks
I am having constant probe attacks to my cable-modem-router. A few of them are quite persistent. See below: [DoS attack: UDP Scan] from source: 146.88.240.4, port 42325, Sat, Apr 02, 2022 22:51:...
michaelkenward
Apr 04, 2022Guru - Experienced User
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.