router thinks IRC is SYN flood attack?
My router drops its connection with the computers on the network whenever I try to connect to IRC (any network). I suspect that the router is trying to defend itself from what it perceives to be a flood attack from all the info upon connection to an IRC server.+
This started recently, and unfortunately I do not know what caused it; I can't think of anything it coincided with. I have tried this from 3 different computers on the network, using different IRC clients. And router firmware is the most recent.
Any solution other than getting a new router?
Some more info:
mIRC says:
*** [10053] Software caused connection abort
My router (Dlink DI-624) log says:
Jan/14/2006 22:13:09 SYN Flood Attack Detect Packet Dropped
Jan/14/2006 22:13:07 SYN Flood Attack Detect Packet Dropped
Jan/14/2006 22:13:04 SYN Flood Attack Detect Packet Dropped
And Windows XP says:
"A network cable has been unplugged"
Then it takes about 10 seconds for the internet connection to restore itself.
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