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DDOS and WLAN access rejected security problems
Hello. I am having problems. Someone who is obtaining my IP address and possibly my WiFi packets is spamming ddos attacks on my network. This person appears to be attempting to login to my wi...
Larry75 wrote:
I did look up the IP address locations that are performing the ddos attacks, (ddos booter locations) With all the IP information lining up with this.
The logs show [DoS attack]. That's something else.
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.