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DOS ATK THAT SEEMS TO BE CAUSING MY PC TO DISCONNECT FROM THE INTERNET
For the last couple weeks ive been getting disconnection while using my pc from games and streams, ive been checking event viewing and trying fixes for some errors i noticed there i also had microsof...
Its a netgear AC1200 router model: R6120
its on firmware version V1.0.0.82
the modem is an arris model TM822G
i did a whois lookup the majority of the instances seems to just be from websites like apple amazon etc.. 2 of the ones i looked up were from somewhere in ukraine. even if theyre false reports could it still potentially cause me to disconnnect?
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Netgear's firmware is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks. Many of them are no such thing.
Search - NETGEAR Communities – DoS attacks
As FURRYe38 says, 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.
okay i turned off the attacks in the log we'll see if that helps. Most of them were false reports a couple from china and ukraine but it still has to be causing the disconnection ive checked everything in the world with my pc and the disconnections happen at the same exact time as the attacks are shown in the log
this time though it said Winnuke atk instead of ack scan
Hi @ADAMT840, if you haven't yet, we recommend contacting our support team. You can always reach our support team via the link below if you need any technical assistance with your NETGEAR device.
https://www.netgear.com/home/contact-us/default.aspx
You can also call the number below.
1-888-NETGEAR (1-888-6384327)
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