Chapter 9
9. 1.
Protect the Network from Cyber Attacks
The SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) Firewall and DoS (Denial of Service) Protection
protect the router from cyber attacks.
The SPI Firewall can prevent cyber attacks and validate the traffic that is passing
through the router based on the protocol. This function is enabled by default, and it's
recommended to keep the default setting.
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 username and password you set for
the router.
2. Go to
Advanced > Security > Settings.
3. Enable
DoS
Protection.
4. Set the level (Off, Low,
Filtering,
UDP-FlOOD Attack Filtering
•
ICMP-FLOOD Attack Filtering
Protocol (ICMP) flood attack.
•
UDP-FlOOD Attack Filtering
(UDP) flood attack.
•
TCP-SYN-FLOOD Attack Filtering
Protocol-Synchronize (TCP-SYN) flood attack.
Middle
or High) of protection for
and
TCP-SYN-FLOOD Attack
- Enable to prevent the Internet Control Message
- Enable to prevent the User Datagram Protocol
- Enable to prevent the Transmission Control
Network Security
ICMP-FLOOD Attack
Filtering.
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