Edimax Technology BR-6428n - Manual (Page 170)

network device, but some malicious intruder
will try to fill your network bandwidth with a
lot of PING request data packet, to make your
internet connection become very slow, even
unusable. Check this box and the router will
ignore all inbound PING request, but when you
activate this function, you will not be able to
ping your own router from internet, too.
Port Scan Some malicious intruder will try to use a ‘port
scanner’ to know how many ports of your
Internet IP address are open, and they can
collect a lot of valuable information by doing
so. Check this box and the router will block all
traffics which are trying to scan your Internet
IP address.
Sync Flood This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot
of fake connection request to consume the
memory of your server, and try to make your
server become unusable. Check this box and
the router will filter this kind of traffic out.
If you need to specify the details of every DoS attack, please click ‘Advanced Settings’
button, and the following settings will appear: