DHCP server

[CCTVINSTALLER 0]

Should you use DHCP server with your router when using Geovision remote systems, or should you set your own IP on your computer?

[joe4 0]

I only use static, and disable the DHCP.

[CCTVINSTALLER 0]

Do you enter the DNS details too?

[joe4 0]

Yes,

Turn DHCP on then:

 

On a WinXP computer:

Start

Run

cmd

ipconfig /all >>c:\ipold.txt

 

Then look in c:\ for the ipold.txt file, it will have all the info you are currently have.

 

Carry all the setting over but use a ip that is out of the DHCP range. Then I would disable the DHCP, it is more secure that way.

 

If your DNS is the same private IP as the router ex. 192.168.1.1 I would look in the router config for the external DNS address and use that instead. Otherwise your router is acting as a DNS proxy.

 

Then you can do another ipconfig /all >>c:\ipnew.txt to keep your settings documented.

[rory 0]

darn thats alot!

 

i just put in an IP in the range, the internal gateway, and the internal subnet ... DHCP is on by default. but then thats the Stand Alone DVR ..

[joe4 0]

rory,

 

once you do it a few hundered times it gets easy. the >> part is just to document the settings and makes it easy to diag over the phone.