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Hi folks,
I've benefited greatly from the "Choosing hardware for Blue Iris" thread as well as the "How to hit your cameras" threads. Great stuff, along many other threads.
My next step is to move from a Hikvision 8 port NVR to a BI-based system. I can pick out the PC on the cheap based on what I've learned here, and other bits too, but I'm struggling mentally with some of the network implications. Probably there's a thread I just haven't located yet, that details exactly what I need to learn. Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Here is my question:
How exactly does the networking work, on a BI PC, to isolate the cameras from the LAN on which the PC lives?
I'm thinking there would be:
~10 cameras --> connected to a POE switch --> (possibly connected to a router for DHCP for the camera subnet) --> connected to a NIC (probably expansion card) on the BI PC.
The PC's built in NIC would be connected to my house's router on my house's LAN.
I've never worked on a computer that had multiple NICs before, so my brain is struggling with some of the how-to's. Do I need that router for the cameras, or can I just manually configure the IP addresses for the cameras and get by with a POE switch alone?
Let's assume the house LAN is the typical 192.168.1.X subnet, so the BI PC on the LAN might be for example 192.168.1.10. But it has a second NIC installed, configured for let's say 192.168.2.X or for that matter 2.2.2.X or whatever else I set the silly things to be.
Is there a good primer on how to work with multiple NIC PCs, relevant to our work here?
Sorry for showing gross ignorance here...
Thanks for any guidance so I can educate myself properly prior to going the BI route.
I've benefited greatly from the "Choosing hardware for Blue Iris" thread as well as the "How to hit your cameras" threads. Great stuff, along many other threads.
My next step is to move from a Hikvision 8 port NVR to a BI-based system. I can pick out the PC on the cheap based on what I've learned here, and other bits too, but I'm struggling mentally with some of the network implications. Probably there's a thread I just haven't located yet, that details exactly what I need to learn. Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Here is my question:
How exactly does the networking work, on a BI PC, to isolate the cameras from the LAN on which the PC lives?
I'm thinking there would be:
~10 cameras --> connected to a POE switch --> (possibly connected to a router for DHCP for the camera subnet) --> connected to a NIC (probably expansion card) on the BI PC.
The PC's built in NIC would be connected to my house's router on my house's LAN.
I've never worked on a computer that had multiple NICs before, so my brain is struggling with some of the how-to's. Do I need that router for the cameras, or can I just manually configure the IP addresses for the cameras and get by with a POE switch alone?
Let's assume the house LAN is the typical 192.168.1.X subnet, so the BI PC on the LAN might be for example 192.168.1.10. But it has a second NIC installed, configured for let's say 192.168.2.X or for that matter 2.2.2.X or whatever else I set the silly things to be.
Is there a good primer on how to work with multiple NIC PCs, relevant to our work here?
Sorry for showing gross ignorance here...
Thanks for any guidance so I can educate myself properly prior to going the BI route.