DoS Attack: ARP Attack

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So, I believe I'm being DOSed pretty badly. I'm pretty lost on what to do. From what I've read, an ARP Attack is a form of man-in-the-middle, but I have no idea about how to resolve that. I have a Netgear Router. I know that they tend to throw false DoS Attack logs, but this seems genuine, especially given the frequency of the attack.

[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source: 74.78.184.1, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:57:06
[DoS Attack: RST Scan] from source: 24.105.29.21, port 80, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:57:02
[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source: 74.78.184.1, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:50:33
[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source: 24.198.96.1, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:50:28
[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source: 74.78.184.1, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:50:19
[DoS Attack: RST Scan] from source: 24.105.29.21, port 80, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:49:59
[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source: 74.78.184.1, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:49:53
[DoS Attack: RST Scan] from source: 72.167.239.239, port 80, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:49:29
[DoS Attack: RST Scan] from source: 24.105.29.21, port 80, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:49:28
[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source: 74.78.184.1, Sunday, April 30, 2017 19:48:59
 
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Those are not DDOS attacks. They likely have no effect at all on your connection. A true DOS attack will send many thousands of packets a second. You have many minutes between these entries so it can not be much data being sent.

The ARP entry is likely a single packet. It almost has to be from your ISP router so it is some other issue. I suppose if the ISP was really stupid they would allow other devices to spoof a ARP but it tends to be impossible on many systems just because of how they are designed. The ARP can not cross a router boundary so this has to be a neighbor or much more likely some strangeness in the ISP setup.
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Those are not DDOS attacks. They likely have no effect at all on your connection. A true DOS attack will send many thousands of packets a second. You have many minutes between these entries so it can not be much data being sent.

The ARP entry is likely a single packet. It almost has to be from your ISP router so it is some other issue. I suppose if the ISP was really stupid they would allow other devices to spoof a ARP but it tends to be impossible on many systems just because of how they are designed. The ARP can not cross a router boundary so this has to be a neighbor or much more likely some strangeness in the ISP setup.
 
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Oh, okay then. Thank you for that information - it had me very worried. Oddly enough, a lot of these do coincide with latency spikes, though. I suppose I'll contact my ISP, then.
 
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Unfortunately even if there were a huge issue there is nothing you can do to fix them. Things like the RST scan can come from random ip addresses so there is no way even for the ISP to block them. ...technically they could put a firewall on their side of the connection but this is only done on commercial accounts that pay for the service. If it was a true DDOS you would see traffic from thousands of different ip addresses most times sending random traffic on random port combinations. This type of attack can take down the largest companies and parts of ISP networks and it is close to impossible to do anything about.
 
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