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Please click 'Security' tab at the top of web management interface, then
click 'DoS', and the following message will be displayed on your web
browser:
Here are descriptions of every setup items:
Ping of Death (1):
Discard Ping
From WAN (2):
Port Scan (3):
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Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause certain
computer to stop responding. Check this box and the router
will filter this kind of packet out.
Ping is a common and useful tool to know
the connection status of a specified remote 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.
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
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