greg@ihug wrote:
> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
> news:fgc331$c2i$...
>> In message <fgc2gd$brn$>, greg@ihug wrote:
>>
>>> I've just got a security DVR that has a network port on it, I can log in
>>> to via my PC and see whats going on, but I can't figure out how to make
>>> it
>>> accessable via the internet.
>>> I've set the DVR to DCHP, so it gets it's own ip address subnet and
>>> gateway from the router.
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure what to do from there.
>>>
>>> The router i'm using is a d-link DSL-504T
>> You'll need to make sure the unit has a static IP address. Then, you will
>> need to set up port forwarding on your router, so that connections to a
>> port number visible to the outside world are automatically passed on to
>> the
>> DVR at the previously-arranged internal IP address.
>
> Ok i've set up the DVR with a static ip, set the port forwarding in the
> router to forward ports 80(web viewer) 5000 (video viewer) and 5001
> (command) to the ip address of the DVR
>
> Trying to remotly log in, using the wan ip address of the router with :80
> serves me up the web interface for the router, trying port 5000 & port 5001
> gives "cannot display the requeted page"
>
> Any more suggestions?
It's best to test this from a machine which is actually outside your local network.
> $ telnet 203.109.219.152 80
> Trying 203.109.219.152...
> Connected to 203.109.219.152.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /
> <HTML>
> <head>
> <title>NetViewer WEB-PROGRAM</title>
> </head>
> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="788" marginheight="562" >
>
> <OBJECT
> classid="clsid:17CE6980-0A83-4608-81BC-CA32EE9EC9B0"
> codebase="NetViewer.cab#version=1,0,0,0"
> width=788
> height=562
> align=center
> hspace=0
> vspace=0
> </OBJECT>
> <param name="_Version" value="65536">
> <param name="_ExtentX" value="20849">
> <param name="_ExtentY" value="14870">
> <param name="_StockProps" value="0">
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
> </object>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
I'm betting that's the dvr and that the port 80 redirection is working.
> $ telnet 203.109.219.152 5000
> Trying 203.109.219.152...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
May need work, could be looking for udp rather than tcp, may just look shut
until it's expecting a connection.
> $ telnet 203.109.219.152 5001
> Trying 203.109.219.152...
> Connected to 203.109.219.152.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /
> ^]
> telnet> quit
> Connection closed.
> $
That redirection seems to be working.
Looking at the external IP from within the LAN hasn't worked for me since I
moved from FreeBSD to Linux on the router. I've never figured out exactly why.
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