Intellinet Network Solutions 523967 - Manual (Page 105)

3-3-3 DoS Attack Prevention
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer
resource unavailable to its intended users. DoS attacks generally consist
of the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person or persons to prevent an
Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily
or indefinitely. One common method of attack involves saturating the
target (victim) machine, in this case the router, with external
communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic,
or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable.
The INTELLINET NETWORK SOLUTIONS 523967 Broadband Router
has a built-in DoS attack prevention mechanism to prevent a DoS attack
from succeeding. We recommend activating all options.
Click the 'Firewall' menu on the left of the Web management interface,
then click 'DoS' and the following screen appears:
Items and Meanings:
Ping of Death (1): Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause
certain computers 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 for knowing
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
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