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BR500 and WAC540 On-Going DOS Attacks and Feature Requests

Submitted by Retired_Member on ‎2020-08-28 01:08 PM
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It would be great to see my below request, being implemented urgently during this deadly and spreadable virus of the International COVID19 pandemic crisis.

It would be great for all Netgear Devices including the BR500 and the WAC540 and any new upcoming Netgear Products for all the Business, Enterprise, and Residential to have these important features.

It would be great if the following could be included in the upcoming updates:

 

  • For blocking websites, support https, and block all pornographic websites.
    Include a feature wherein the traffic generated by the device is shown in the logs.

 

  • It would be great if you could also include in the feature request to your engineers, to have an inbuilt system to allow anyone to click on any countries, which they would like to block people from accessing any sites from that they think is not suitable because of the international crisis, etc., which would block all traffic and sites from certain countries, such as China, etc.

 

  • Implementing a strong firewall and anti-DDOS attacks by preventing us from being attacked by Tencent and it's software applications manufactured by them, which has been causing the on-going DoS attacks.

In conclusion, it would be great to see the above feature request to be included with urgency in the latest updates for all products and including the new ones going to launch soon.

Lastly, it would be great for all the Netgear devices (BR500) to have the new WiFi 6, which is the latest technology in today's society so that everyone is able to be able to get the very best WiFi speeds out of their own network in their particular country.

Please help.

Thank you.

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schumaku
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‎2020-08-31 08:36 AM
‎2020-08-31 08:36 AM
@Retired_Member wrote:

For blocking websites, support https,

Insight and the Insight manageable WAP and WAX have URL filtering supporting https, kind of at least. It's not capturing the effective Web traffic, but the plain text DNS query. Clients using encrypted/secured DNS will bypass this with ease.

 

@Retired_Member wrote:

and block all pornographic websites.

This would require some strong service allowing classification ...

 

@Retired_Member wrote:

Include a feature wherein the traffic generated by the device is shown in the logs.

Often requested on Netgear's consumer routers, Orbi Pro and BR500...

 

@Retired_Member wrote:

...to have an inbuilt system to allow anyone to click on any countries, which they would like to block people from accessing any sites from that they think is not suitable because of the international crisis, etc., which would block all traffic and sites from certain countries, such as China, etc.

Country or region based firewall for outgoing and/or incoming connections, is missing kind of.

 

@Retired_Member wrote:

Implementing a strong firewall and anti-DDOS attacks by preventing us from being attacked by Tencent and it's software applications manufactured by them, which has been causing the on-going DoS attacks.

Hard to do much on the CPE or local router level ...

 

@Retired_Member wrote:

...it would be great for all the Netgear devices (BR500) to have the new WiFi 6, ...

The first Wi-Fi 6 access points are already available with the WAX610 and the WAX610W. Reminder: Wi-Fi 6 is made for concurrent usage and performance, not for the highest speed.