Dos (Denial Of Service) - Edimax BR-6479Gn Quick Installation Manual

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10-4 DoS (Denial of Service)

DoS (Denial of Service) 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 the traffics is much more than it can handles.
BR-6479Gn has a built‐in DoS attack prevention mechanism; when you activate it, BR-6479Gn
will stop the DoS attack for you:
If you are not familiar with these functions, we suggest you to keep the factory default settings
and leave them to technician to set up for you in case that the router's performance turns bad.
Ping of Death
Discard Ping from
WAN
Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause certain
computer to stop responding. Check this box and
BR-6479Gn will filter this kind of packet out.
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
Check this box and BR-6479Gn will ignore all inbound
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