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G.SHDSL Bridge/Router
GRT-101/401/402 User's Manual
network traffic. It can set up the DoS protection parameters
SYN flood: A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack, attempts to slow your network by
requesting new connections but not completing the process to open the connection. Once the
buffer for these pending connections is full a server will not accept any more connections and
will be unresponsive.
ICMP flood: A sender transmits a volume of ICMP request packets to cause all CPU resources
to be consumed serving the phony requests.
UDP Flood: A UDP flood attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack using the User Datagram
Protocol (UDP). A sender transmits a volume of requests for UDP diagnostic services which
cause all CPU resources to be consumed serving the phony requests.
Ping of Death: A ping of death (abbreviated "POD") attack attempts to crash your system by
sending a fragmented packet, when reconstructed is larger than the maximum allowable size.
Land attack: A land attack is an attempt to slow your network down by sending a packet with
identical source and destination addresses originating from your network.
IP Spoofing: IP Spoofing is a method of masking the identity of an intrusion by making it
appeared that the traffic came from a different computer. This is used by intruders to keep their
anonymity and can be used in a Denial of Service attack.
Smurf attack: The Smurf attack is a way of generating a lot of computer network traffic to a
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