A separate network for IP Cameras

[RichardU 0]

I wanted to keep my IP Camera activity on a separate network from my regular network. I didn't find a tutorial for this exact situation, so I stumbled through. If you're trying to do the same thing and this can help, great. If you're an expert and can point out a better way to do it, even better.

 

So here is the plan. I'm running Milestone on a Win7-64 server with two NICs.

 

NIC1 192.168.0.123 is connected to the home network and the internet.

NIC2 192.168.1.1 is connected to the camera (Acti E33), and later will be connected to a switch for more cameras.

 

For NIC 2, in Control Panel / Network and Internet / Network Connections I did this:

 

 

Then, I connected to the camera with IP_Utility (Acti softwre) and did this:

 

 

It works.

 

Comments welcomed.

Edited October 27, 2013 by Guest

[buellwinkle 0]

If you are using simple PoE switches, make sure only the cameras and the one NIC on the PC are on that switch and nothing from the other 192.168.0 subnet. If you want to share the two subnets on a single switch, make sure it's a managed switch with VLAN support and create a VLAN for each subnet.