Hello all,
I'm looking to secure my IP cameras and NVR from the outside eyes of the internet but also allow the manufacturers remote viewing app to access the NVR from several smart phones. Browsing through the forum, I see the most common recommendation is to have the cameras on a totally separate network and/or on VLAN.
I plan to get an ubiquiti edge router X and a D-Link (DGS-1100-08P) managed POE switch for the separate Network portion.
I'm using an Amcrest 16CH NVR (NV4116E-HS), with 8 POE ports with 4 camera's currently ported into the NVR and plan to add 2/3 more cams onto the NVR POE Ports, then a few more cams will be plugged into the D-link managed POE Switch routed by the ER X.
I pretty much need a networking for dummies how to guide. I'm reading I have to create a different subnet for my separate network (I think), configure VLANS, then setup a VPN to allow my NVR to securely transmit video stream out to several smart phones. I did read the IPCT wiki on how to secure your network, but I have no clue on what or how to configure things.
As a side note, when checking under the "connections' tab on my router, I noticed my 2 off brand "Chinese" cams from Amazon were connecting to Google, Amazon technologies, and L3 communications IP addresses which kind of freaked me out. These same cameras when first connecting to NVR gave themselves IP addresses that other cameras had, conflicted and timed them out until, i manually assigned an IP address to them.
Any and all input is welcome.
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I'm looking to secure my IP cameras and NVR from the outside eyes of the internet but also allow the manufacturers remote viewing app to access the NVR from several smart phones. Browsing through the forum, I see the most common recommendation is to have the cameras on a totally separate network and/or on VLAN.
I plan to get an ubiquiti edge router X and a D-Link (DGS-1100-08P) managed POE switch for the separate Network portion.
I'm using an Amcrest 16CH NVR (NV4116E-HS), with 8 POE ports with 4 camera's currently ported into the NVR and plan to add 2/3 more cams onto the NVR POE Ports, then a few more cams will be plugged into the D-link managed POE Switch routed by the ER X.
I pretty much need a networking for dummies how to guide. I'm reading I have to create a different subnet for my separate network (I think), configure VLANS, then setup a VPN to allow my NVR to securely transmit video stream out to several smart phones. I did read the IPCT wiki on how to secure your network, but I have no clue on what or how to configure things.
As a side note, when checking under the "connections' tab on my router, I noticed my 2 off brand "Chinese" cams from Amazon were connecting to Google, Amazon technologies, and L3 communications IP addresses which kind of freaked me out. These same cameras when first connecting to NVR gave themselves IP addresses that other cameras had, conflicted and timed them out until, i manually assigned an IP address to them.
Any and all input is welcome.
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