DSL modems used for pen-testing

[Toby Barrick]

Has anyone else run into the problem of "swamping" the connection tables 
in their DSL modems (on the attack side and the target side)? I 
currently have a Zyxel 643 router/ADSL modem that I "wanted to use for 
pen-testing, but the darn thing dies when doing something as simple as a 
port scan.

I you have run into the problem, what was the fix other than throttling 
the scanning app? If a new modem, which one?

TIA

Toby

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