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Title: Wanted To know
Post by: Smith on March 29, 2010, 07:52:03 PM

 :-XDoes any one know if the dgl 4500 potect you from ddos attatcks??? :-X

Title: Re: Wanted To know
Post by: FurryNutz on March 30, 2010, 07:19:33 AM

I presume it would however I also presume that would be a worst case scenario for a home user and someone who would be really bored trying to inject one to a home user. I presume that bigger fish are out there. I would contact the a Moderator and ask however. Hope nobody gets hit with one though.  :o

Title: Re: Wanted To know
Post by: 4500Owner on March 30, 2010, 01:02:57 PM

Short answer by and large is:  no (either incoming or outgoing)

By their very nature...DDoS attacks (and there are many types and variables) are designed to overwhelm bandwidth and/or gateway/router/node data processing and/or take advantage of a programming flaw - this is a consumer level gateway device, and even enterprise level equipment can be quickly and easily overwhelmed.

And of course, assuming a device/node on the LAN side is infected with DDoS-participating malware, the gateway generally allows outgoing connections, and aside from any specific user configuration restrictions, it has no logic to detect/prevent them.

Obviously, the gateway cant prevent a device (like a PC) from being infected with malware, though it can help mitigate/detect such infections.

It can prevent certain specific DoS attacks on itself/LAN devices, but this functionality is pretty limited and covers DoS (not really DDoS) scenarios.

You certainly wont find any consumer level equipment capable of (realistically) protecting you from DDoS attacks, so, don't bother looking for that feature.