Edimax 3G-6408n User Manual page 103

Sync Flood
If you need to specify the details of every DoS attack, please click 'Advanced Settings'
button, and the following settings will appear:
Item Name
Ping of Death
Discard Ping From
WAN
Port Scan
Sync Flood
IP address.
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.
Description
Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention
mechanism will be activated. Please check the
box of Ping of Death, and input the frequency
of threshold (how many packets per second,
minute, or hour), you can also input the 'Burst'
value, which means when this number of 'Ping
of Death' packet is received in very short time,
this DoS prevention mechanism will be
activated.
Check the box to activate this DoS prevention
mechanism.
Many kind of port scan methods are listed
here, please check one or more DoS attack
methods you want to prevent.
Like Ping of Death, you can set the threshold
of when this DoS prevention mechanism will
be activated.
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