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idotf
Aspirant
Sep 02, 2015

Netgear A6210 on Windows 7 PC crashes Netgear R8000 WiFi Router w/ DOS Attack

I recently rebooted my cable modem and my Netgear WIFI router (R8000) because my wifi connection on my Windows 7 PC (using a Netgear A6210) was telling me there was an IP conflict on the network. The...
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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 04, 2015

Hi idotf,

 

Welcome to Community!

 

Base on the logs, the IP addresses are public IPs which are from outside your network. Try to install the adapter on a different computer or connect it again to the same computer then disconnect the router from Internet and check if you still get DoS attack.

 

Regards,

 

JamesGL

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idotf
Aspirant
Sep 10, 2015

Thanks for the advice. Turns out is was EA's Origin Gaming Client that was crashing my router. I did some trouble shooting with the startup items, and one of the games was downloading a update that was crashing the system. Not sure how downloading a game update through a legitimate gaming client application can cause a DOS attack, or something else... But, I clicked on "repair" for the game in the Origin client and it went through a repair process and updated perfectly, with no more router/wifi breaks.

 

Hope this helps someone in the future.