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Denial of Service attacks
I’ve read all the posts I can find but still , I have a question. Legitimate or not, inherently damaging or not, does the Netgear router (Nighthawk CAX80) handle these intrusions without Netgear Armor ( or suitable replacement) or not? Moreover , when I see hundreds of these per day in the log, regardless of perhaps a less sinister, more benign effect, they have to be affecting router performance and the stability of the WIFI signal. Comments please.
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moryasena wrote:
I’ve read all the posts I can find but still , I have a question.
Did your reading find this bit of boilerplate response?
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.
