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Psychbum
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Apr 20, 2022

R7000 DoS attacks help please

Not sure why but in my router logs I am seeing the following;   [DoS attack: Smurf] then an IP address which is the IP of my iPhone 13 pro max.   Anybody know what is causing this, it happens a f...
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Psychbum
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Apr 20, 2022
The IP address is the one of my iPhone, so 182.168.1.12 which is not coming from outside but from inside I believe.

Is that correct?
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plemans
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Apr 20, 2022

if its coming from your iphone, i'd look at it as a false positive. 

You might try disabling random mac/ip address on the iphone and see if that helps. 

Again, try a quick search on the forums