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"DoS attack: Fraggle Attack" almost every 10 seconds
Hello. I replaced an aging gateway firewall/router/gateway lately and my Nighthawk X6S has plenty of this Fraggle Attack in its Log. Does anyone know what is this? What port/s does this pertain to? I have to identify this so I can report to the support for my new firewall/router/gateway. Below is a capture of what's in the Log. Thanks in advance.
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:35:50
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:35:40
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:35:29
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:35:19
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:35:09
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:34:59
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:34:49
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:34:39
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 34437 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:34:29
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:34:18
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:34:08
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:33:58
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:33:48
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:33:38
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:33:28
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:33:17
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:33:07
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:32:57
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:32:47
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:32:37
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:32:27
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:32:16
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:32:06
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:31:56
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:31:46
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:31:36
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:31:26
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:31:16
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:31:05
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:30:55
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:30:45
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:30:35
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 36992 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:30:25
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:30:15
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:30:04
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:29:54
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:29:44
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:29:34
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:29:24
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:29:14
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:29:04
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:28:53
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:28:43
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:28:33
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:28:23
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:28:13
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:28:03
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:27:52
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:27:42
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:27:32
[DoS attack: Fraggle Attack] from source 192.168.5.1,port 48135 Monday, Sep 13,2021 19:27:22
21 Replies
It seems to be a netgear or nighthawk issue, so much so that if you google the attack it leads to netgear posts. Most people turn off that alert in their logs from what I found. Turn the alert on if you feel you are under attack, other than that turn it off. It's logging not a feature, your firewall will still work.
But the log is reporting that it comes from my firewall/router/gateway! Throughput seems to be unaffected by this Fraggle Attack!
My log is now free of Fraggle Attack entries. I disabled DoS attack reporting in the Log.
You can try opening a case to report it, but it's hard to report bugs with netgear. Support doesn't seem to understand reporting bugs, it's not in their script.
