Edimax Technology BR-6428n User Manual
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3‐6‐3 DoS
Denial of Service (DoS) is a common attack measure, by transmitting a great amount of data
or request to your Internet IP address and server, the Internet connection will become very
slow, and server may stop responding because it is not capable to handle too much traffics.
This router has a built‐in DoS attack prevention mechanism; when you activate it, the router
will stop the DoS attack for you:
Here lists four kinds of DoS attacks, please select the type of DoS attack you wish this
broadband router to protect, and you can select multiple types of attacks.
The descriptions of every DoS attack is listed below:
Item Name
Description
Ping of Death
Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will
cause certain computer to stop responding.
Check this box and the router will filter this
kind of packet out.
Discard Ping From
WAN
Ping is a common and useful tool to know
the connection status of a specified remote