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How do I configure wireless router to stop forwarding broadcast directed traffic to the network?

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http://serverfault.com – Basically, can anyone tell/assist me on how to make my NETGEAR N 300 Wireless Router stop forwarding broadcast directed traffic to the network? So the problem is this: I've been receiving DoS attack: Smurf to my network for about a week now, and it's consuming about 10x the amount of bandwidth I normally use. The message as follows: [DoS attack: Smurf] attacks packets in the last 20sec from ip [] I've googled the problem and many sites suggest I should go to my router settings and stop forwarding broadcast directed traffic to the network. However I can't seem to find out how to do so.. so i (HowTos)

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Submitted by grtyyu on 02/18/2012 – Made popular on 02/18/2012

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