On 8/15/07, Nick Daniels nick@oldhippy068.plus.com wrote:
I have had Netgear DG834g for about two years now.I installed Etch on Mon, and since then I have been receiving email such as TCP Packet - Source:209.112.135.123,50394 Destination: xxxx DOS, never had these before.
If I start torrent I am getting 20+ per minute, upon turning on this morning there was three timed at 01:00 etc although router was off.
I'd be surprised it's installing Etch that has caused this - more likely your router has always been trying to email these reports and now it has found an MTA it can use.
Which torrent client do you use? The large number of connections, inbound and outbound, can look like a denial of service attack. As for messages at times when it was switched off, I suspect the router doesn't have a battery backed clock (to save costs), and instead does a time sync once connected. 01:00 BST is 00:00 GMT.
I'd reconfigure the router to only email really serious problems - what difference does it make knowing that your domestic router thinks there is a DOS attacking going on?
Hope this helps, Tim.