Firewall & Dos Protection - TP-Link HC220-G5 User Manual

Chapter 10
10. 1. Firewall & DoS Protection
The SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) Firewall and DoS (Denial of Service) Protection
protect the controller from cyber attacks.
The SPI Firewall can prevent cyber attacks and validate the traffic that is passing
through the controller based on the protocol. This function is enabled by default, and it
is recommended to keep the default settings.
DoS Protection can protect your home network against DoS attacks from flooding your
network with server requests. Follow the steps below to configure DoS Protection.
1. Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the password you set for the controller.
2. Go to Advanced
Note: DoS Protection
Tools > Traffic Statistics
3. Enable DoS Protection.
4. Set the pretection level (Low,
Flood Attack Filtering
• ICMP-Flood Attack Filtering
Message Protocol) flood attack.
• UDP-Flood Attack Filtering
Protocol) flood attack.
• TCP-Flood Attack Filtering
Protocol) flood attack.
5. Click Save to make the settings effective.
Tips:
1. The level of protection is based on the number of traffic packets. You can specify the level under
Level Settings.
> Security > Firewall & DoS
and Traffic Statistics must be enabled at the same time, you can go to
to enable traffic statistics function.
Middle or High) for
and TCP-Flood Attack
- Enable to prevent the ICMP (Internet Control
- Enable to prevent the UDP (User Datagram
- Enable to prevent the TCP (Transmission Control
Protection.
ICMP-Flood Attack
Filtering.
Network Security
Advanced > System
Filtering, UDP-
DoS Protection
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