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WNDR4300v2 DoS Attacks HELP!!!
A few months ago my old router went bad so I got the WNDR4300v2. Ever since I got the new router I have noticed alot of dos attacks in the router logs and im unsure if this is normal and is something...
I spot checked a few of the IP addresses and none of them look like they would really be the source of any DoS attacks. A few of us here think that Netgear's DoS attack detection heuristics are borked on some of their routers. You can actually select Disable Port Scan and DoS Protection in WAN Setup on the router. This will disable the heuristics. This won't disable the firewall, so you'll still have basic protection.
If you are not comfortable with this, then you could just choose to ignore them. Except for a few small bursts, the frequency of these logs is not that high.
Im not really comfortable turning off the dos protection. Since it seems like these are all false attacks and nothing to be concerned about would it be a good idea just to turn off dos attacks logging so it wont show in router logs?