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Dos Attack question
so to start this off im a pretty paranoid person, and check these logs like crazy (even though ive seen that its really nothing/noise/etc) I was checking the logs and noticed a lot coming from th...
Search around. NETGEAR firmware is famous for generating false positives. 98% of all IPs you see in the logs are NOT attacking you. They are false positives. Some will even come from your own devices/local network and some from your ISP or legitimate companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.
There is nothing to be paranoid about. I run since 2017 without DoS protection on router(because it's useless) and never had any issues.
Relax, no one is coming to break in in your network or do some other nasty things. If you're still concerend about an IP, look it up: https://iplocation.io/