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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
Surely if enough bandwidth was used sending requests to your IP the downstream could become overloaded even if you didn't respond at all and there is diddly squat your router could do to stop that happening - it would need blocking somewhere upstream of you.
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Yes, but that's not really an ICMP flood, that's a generic traffic-volume Denial of Service attack. Any type of traffic can achieve that (I prefer using UDP) and as you say, there's diddly squat your firewall or router can do about it.
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Anyway just what chance is there that a home IP is going to be the target of any form of DoS? Despite seeing the option to defend against DoS attacks in home router settings I fail to see what they could do other than turn themselves off.
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Well I've attacked a few hundred home IPs myself. Small fry in the ocean of home IPs but there have been legitimate reasons.