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    Am I being DoS attacked?

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    • provelsP
      provels
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      TL;DR, but maybe it's a bot port scanning for commonly used ports?

      Peder

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        furom @provels
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        @provels said in Am I being DoS attacked?:

        TL;DR, but maybe it's a bot port scanning for commonly used ports?

        Well, It could be, but that intense it affects other traffic?

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          What is your WAN download bandwidth? If it's significantly larger than 2.7Mbps, which I imagine it is, then a short download like that really should affect other traffic. The other thing it might be is a large number of new connections or maybe a very large number of small packets.

          It's almost certainly not some external scan/attack because that is pass traffic on WAN. So replies to something internal connecting out in this case.

          Steve

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            furom @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 I think I have 250 down, so yes, should be plenty of bandwidth left. And the passin-traffic, I checked this while watching Youtube, and well, it comes really close. So don't think the 2.7Mb is what made things stutter... Almost as if someone pressed pause/play really fast (which I hope is not the case)
            Once I sat on my remote, but don't think that was it this time... :D

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