CCTV, port forwarding and linking to a Static IP.

chunter

Anybody know of any websites which explain this reasonably well.

I seem to be going round the houses, figuratively.

1) I set the router to the static IP given by my ISP. say 80.80.80.80
The router's private IP is 192.168.1.1

2) I assign a port on the CCTV DVM controller thingy, say 8000
3) I assign a the ip as 192.168.1.3
(or do I give it the static IP (80.80.80.80))

4) I then set the router to forward port 8000 to the private ip of 192.168.1.3

Is this roughly the procedure ?

I can't use DHCP, can I?

Firewalls, I'll sort later

elite_2

Looks good

In step 3 you need to give the "192.168.1.3" ip

I use DHCP for wireless laptops, but reserve the ips for my servers that use port forwarding.

You probably won't be able to see the cam from within your network using the public ip (unless your router has loopback) - but you can test it is working by using some sort of proxy like this and entering the address 80.80.80.80:8000

HTH

Little_John

I have set up a few of these in the last few weeks

your port forwarding is fine, the system I used is a web server type device so it is useing port 80, the connection is a static ip so either using the system software or a web browser pointed to the ip address I can get in to the systems and view the footage.

As for DHCP, I changed the range limited it to 10 addresses 2-12 then configured the DVR to .20

The only thing I would change is the setting of the static ip in the router, it has changed a little where the ip follows the login details so you can set it to assigned by the ISP, you will still get the same ip each time you reboot the router, it is just 1 less thing to get wrong.

As for viewing the system from the local network just enter the LAN address of the system 192.168.1.3 in yourcase in to a browser and it should get you what you want.