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Please click ‘Firewall’ menu on the left 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): 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.

Discard Ping Ping is a common and useful tool to know

From WAN (2): 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.

Port Scan (3): 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 so. Check this box

and the router will block all traffics which are trying

to scan your Internet IP address.

Sync Flood (4): This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot of