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DoS and Ping sweep attacks
Just had a look through the logs this morning and boy am I surprised. The logs are showing that my router is being attacked from multiple IP addresses. Here's the log for more context [DoS Attack...
crus4d3r_1211 wrote:
Is this a false positive, or is this something that I should be concerned about?
Hard to tell without knowing what Netgear stuff uou are using, but 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.