BassTeQ 0 Posted February 20, 2014 I see this NVR has its own subnet for its plug and play cameras, eg 192.168.1.x when the main network is 192.168.0.x So I connected a patch cable between one of the PoE ports and the home router. Added a static route in the router to send any 192.168.1.x traffic via the main gateway 192.168.0.1 Doing this I can successfully ping the 192.168.1.x camera when connected to the 192.168.0.x network, great! BUT I cant access the cameras internal webpage, it just times out. Any ideas? Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
superrug 0 Posted February 20, 2014 I know almost nothing about cameras but networking know a bit more. Have you tried adding a route on the PC ? route add 192.168.1.? mask 255.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 metric 2 Any difference? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyJoey 0 Posted February 20, 2014 You are making it more complicated than it needs to be. Setup each camera to use DHCP from your router, or give them a static IP address. Connect the LAN to the POE-Switch. No routing needed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BassTeQ 0 Posted February 21, 2014 You are making it more complicated than it needs to be. Setup each camera to use DHCP from your router, or give them a static IP address. Connect the LAN to the POE-Switch. No routing needed. Unfortunately the PoE ports on the back of the NVR are auto assigned their own IP from the NVR itself, not the main router DHCP. The cameras are set to DHCP before I connect them to the NVR, when they are connected to the NVR they are given a 192.168.1.x address, if I plug the camera into my main router then they get a 192.168.0.x Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyJoey 0 Posted February 22, 2014 You are making it more complicated than it needs to be. Setup each camera to use DHCP from your router, or give them a static IP address. Connect the LAN to the POE-Switch. No routing needed. Unfortunately the PoE ports on the back of the NVR are auto assigned their own IP from the NVR itself, not the main router DHCP. The cameras are set to DHCP before I connect them to the NVR, when they are connected to the NVR they are given a 192.168.1.x address, if I plug the camera into my main router then they get a 192.168.0.x The NVR assigns the cameras an IP address without using DHCP, using a lower level protocol. If you your DHCP server assigned them an IP address, then it will leave them alone. You can manually add the camera using the IP address that your router assigned (set a reserved IP address in your router) in the NVR. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ak357 0 Posted February 22, 2014 You are making it more complicated than it needs to be. The NVR assigns the cameras an IP address without using DHCP, using a lower level protocol. If you your DHCP server assigned them an IP address, then it will leave them alone. You can manually add the camera using the IP address that your router assigned (set a reserved IP address in your router) in the NVR. JoeyJoey HIK NVR create completely separate subnet for camera BassTeO is right I guess all u can do plug laptop to camera port and access cameras Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyJoey 0 Posted February 22, 2014 JoeyJoey HIK NVR create completely separate subnet for camera BassTeO is right I guess all u can do plug laptop to camera port and access cameras Yep I know, but it doesn't have to use its own. The NVR does NOT have a DHCP server. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ak357 0 Posted February 22, 2014 Yep I know, but it doesn't have to use its own. The NVR does NOT have a DHCP server. We know this The point is that cameras will not be accessible by using NIC which is being used to connect NVR with home network That how I understand Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyJoey 0 Posted February 22, 2014 Yep I know, but it doesn't have to use its own. The NVR does NOT have a DHCP server. We know this The point is that cameras will not be accessible by using NIC which is being used to connect NVR with home network That how I understand One way is this: Assign a reserved IP address for each camera in your router. Connect the camera to the POE-Switch. Connect a single POE-Switch port to your LAN. Connect the NVR LAN port to your LAN. Configure each camera to use DHCP. Manually add each camera in the NVR using the reserved IP address. Another way is: Have your LAN to use the DHCP address range of 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.199 Change the address range of the POE-Switch network to be 192.168.1.200+ (this in the menus of the NVR) Connect a NVR-POE port to your LAN. Connect the NVR-LAN to your LAN. All the cameras will be plug and play and be accessible from the LAN. But you will have to see their IP address by looking at the NVRs config menus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ak357 0 Posted February 22, 2014 One way is this: Assign a reserved IP address for each camera in your router. Connect the camera to the POE-Switch. Connect a single POE-Switch port to your LAN. Connect the NVR LAN port to your LAN. Configure each camera to use DHCP. Manually add each camera in the NVR using the reserved IP address. --------------------------------------------------- Agree ,but you will loose one port for camera The same I was saying as to connect laptop to unused PoE port set up your camera and u done -------------------------------------------------- Another way is: Have your LAN to use the DHCP address range of 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.199 Change the address range of the POE-Switch network to be 192.168.1.200+ (this in the menus of the NVR) Connect a NVR-POE port to your LAN. Connect the NVR-LAN to your LAN. All the cameras will be plug and play and be accessible from the LAN. But you will have to see their IP address by looking at the NVRs config menus. kinda the same "logic" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyJoey 0 Posted February 22, 2014 Yep you lose a port, if you needed it. By having continual access to the cameras you can update the firmware easily plus use the additional motion detection capabilities of the cameras to save data to an external device PC/NAS. This gives you redundancy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites