Region : Sweden

Model : Archer C7

Hardware Version : Not Clear

Firmware Version : 3.14.1 Build 140929 Rel.33293n

ISP : Telia

Hi.

I purchased this router few days ago, configured, all stable and works fine. It's connected directly to Internet.

Started up a web server on my computer on port 8080, opened that port in Forwarding > Port Triggering, all works fine, server is reachable from Internet.

Then I tried DoS Protection for fun:

Security > Advanced Security > DoS Protection: Enable + ICMP,UDP,TCP-SYN + WAN Ping
System Tools > Statistics: Enabled

Asked a friend from Internet to run a small DoS on my external IP and port 8080, a program that makes 100 TCP connections per second, nothing unusual.

The next second Internet connection on my computer died, I could not connect to Internet and nobody could connect to my web server anymore.

Then I looked in Security > Advanced Security > Blocked DoS Host List and found single IP in that list, that IP is the address that router gave to my computer via DHCP.

Question: Is this a joke? A bug perhaps? How smart is a DoS protection that blocks the hoster himself when it should block the other address who attacked me?

This is very big misunderstanding, either software developers have no idea how DoS protection really should work, or it's a simple bug.

Please help me out, I only got a couple of days left to return my router back to the store if I'm not satisfied.