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Log help Netgear R6260
Looking at this log, I am hoping all these "DoS attack" logs are just reporting attempts at those intrusions that the router has repelled.Is this a normal amount? Using with a Charter/Spectrum Arris ...
Sasquatch3000 wrote:
Anybody?
Give us a break. No one pays us to do this stuff.
Being impatient, you could have made life easier for yourself with a search of this forum.
Something simple like "DoS attack" would have found this oft repeated reply.
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.
So, "false positives" eh? I guess that kind of makes sense, but if it is such a problem for so many, you would think they might work on lessening that aspect of the software.
Thanks for your answer. Sorry to sound impatient. Most forums I belong to, you get about a dozen answers by a couple hours in. I guess this one is a bit different.
The statement about processing power to write to a log file, while sure it probably exists, but it is not doing rocket science, just writing out basically a text file, and not all that much at that. It would be cool to see an OS-like function like Windows' Task Manager for this, so one can see what is consuming processing cycles.
Thanks again.