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Why over 200 smurf attack packets from Comcast IP's within a day.
For about a two weeks, I've been getting 100's of smurf attack packets on my Netgear R7000P NightHawk. The ip's seem to be comcast's. On Oct. 29, 2022 there seems to be over 200. Is there a ...
False positives. NG is famously known for that. Either disable logging of these or completely disable DoS protection.
And yes michaelkenward processing/dropping/blocking at iptables levels is far more expensive than just logging somme entries in the logs
Besides, what's the point keeping it on if 85-90% are false positives? The rest 10-15% is just yoour regular spambots testing trying to get in. It's useless
microchip8 wrote:
Besides, what's the point keeping it on if 85-90% are false positives? The rest 10-15% is just yoour regular spambots testing trying to get in. It's useless
Keeping what on? Protection or logging?
Protection. Logs just get spammed by false positives. In my 22 years of Linux experience and particulary iptables/nftables, I can 100% assure you iptables/nftables takes way more prcessing power than writing some lines to the log. Yes, the log uses a % or so but nowhere near the amount of iptables/nftables.