DDoS Protection
 

How do you stay protected from a DDoS attack, if you have a Virgin Media Superhub?


Which Security options do you enable on the Superhub?



Thanks

Re: DDoS Protection
 

untick respond to ping requests

Re: DDoS Protection
 

Do I uncheck this:


WAN Ping Respond:-

- Respond to ICMP echo requests sent to WAN IP



?

Re: DDoS Protection
 

yeah uncheck that, that means it wont repond, but doesnt "protect" you as such

Re: DDoS Protection
 

To be protect from DDoS, you have to get VPN???


Thanks

Re: DDoS Protection
 

Disabling ping response is about all you can do, what exactly is your situation? are you being DDoSed?

Re: DDoS Protection
 

No, I just wanted to know how you would protect yourself if someone DDoS attacked your IP address...

Re: DDoS Protection
 

Just why would you expect a home IP address to suffer a DDoS?

Re: DDoS Protection
 

he works for MI5 and has many enemies, foreign and domestic

Re: DDoS Protection
 

The only way to protect against a DDoS is to have your ISP null-route your IP at the border.

Absolutely nothing you could ever do on a Superhub will give you any sort of protection whatsoever

Re: DDoS Protection
 

Not responding to pings would most likely make the attacker give up though

Re: DDoS Protection
 

Some here would have you washing your mouth out with soap for casting such aspersions against the bestest hub in the known universe.

Re: DDoS Protection
 

No, they wouldn't - but well done on the off-topic ad hominem aspersion......

Re: DDoS Protection
 

My Asus Router has a DDoS attack protection.

Re: DDoS Protection
 

So does tomato firmware, it just drops packets if it gets a suspicious amount of ping requests, something my router was doing when I was running ping monitors from 2 servers as well as thinkbroadbands monitor, it was showing 10% packet loss on each