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DDOS'd Please Help! Nighthawk R7000 router
Hi if anyone could please help. I am new to this so bare with me please. I got DDOS'd (booted) yesterday and I know so because the person sent me a message and my game froze then kicked me as well as...
Zebragaming wrote:
.... my question is does the NETGEAR Nighthawk R7000 have any defense it self agaisnt DDOS.
Did you consult the logs for your R7000 router?
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.
Check the section in the manual View Logs of Router Activity.
You may have done that already. I can't tell from your message.
I mention it because Netgear gave up on supplying paper manuals years ago and people sometimes miss the downloads.
If you do read the logs, be warned that Netgear's firmware is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks. Many of them are no such thing.
Search - NETGEAR Communities – DoS attacks
I disabled all logging on my own router. I was getting multiple false reports of DDoS attacks. I deduced that the router logging was just rubbish. Never had a problem since, well I wouldn't know would I because I no longer have logging enabled
Portwey84 wrote:
I disabled all logging on my own router. I was getting multiple false reports of DDoS attacks.
That's one way of dealing with it.
A less severe approach is just to disable logging of "Known DoS attacks and Port Scans".
Portwey84 wrote:
I deduced that the router logging was just rubbish.
Can't argue with that. And most of the log events are kind of pointless for many users. Do I really need to know about Connections to the Web-based interface of this Router?
But there may be some useful events. The "Dos Attacks" seem to be especially useless – and pointlessly scary to some people. And they also seem to cause more performance issues than other events.