port forwarding

[vidicam]

For port forwarding, choose a port in your router that opens you to view, for example, a camera via WAN.

Who can clearly explain why some cameras do not accept your choice of port and force you to choose a port that apparently is assigned by the camera.

I have this with a hikvision DS-2CD2032F camera that assigns port 80

Let's say you have 4 of this camera, then choose all ports 80 ?

I think this causes problems.

UPnp has been disabled at both the Hikvision and in the router

Who brings clarity.


Greeting,

 

[fenderman]

For port forwarding, choose a port in your router that opens you to view, for example, a camera via WAN.

Who can clearly explain why some cameras do not accept your choice of port and force you to choose a port that apparently is assigned by the camera.

I have this with a hikvision DS-2CD2032F camera that assigns port 80

Let's say you have 4 of this camera, then choose all ports 80 ?

I think this causes problems.

UPnp has been disabled at both the Hikvision and in the router

Who brings clarity.


Greeting,

here is clarity - do not forward any camera or nvr...unless you dont care about your network security.

 

[copex]

use a vpn if your router supports it if not use https over http with strong password and switching off upnp and platform access.

if any of the cameras in internal i would strongly advise a vpn or firewall rules restricting access.

on your router use port redirection

for example ...... 2 cameras

1 - 192.168.1.10 webport 80
2 - 192.168.1.11 webport 80

port redirection

1 - source port 8081 destination port 80 ip 192.168.1.10
2 - source port 8082 destination port 80 ip 192.168.1.11

the to view the cameras http://<publicip>:8081 for camera 1 and http://<publicip>:8082

for htttps change port 80 to 443

hope it helps

 

[e007]

use a vpn if your router supports it if not use https over http with strong password and switching off upnp and platform access.

Or use another computer to host VPN server and port forward only it. (Or maybe an external router?)

 

[looney2ns]

VPN Primer for Noobs

 

[gregbert]

For port forwarding, choose a port in your router that opens you to view, for example, a camera via WAN.

Who can clearly explain why some cameras do not accept your choice of port and force you to choose a port that apparently is assigned by the camera.

I have this with a hikvision DS-2CD2032F camera that assigns port 80

Let's say you have 4 of this camera, then choose all ports 80 ?

I think this causes problems.

UPnp has been disabled at both the Hikvision and in the router

Who brings clarity.


Greeting,

I'm not familiar with HK cams, so don't know if you can configure it to listen on another port. That may be the initial default port and it's possible it can be changed using its config/admin web page.

Regarding port forwarding. As others have said, this does include security concerns, but to answer you question...
You would need to choose a unique port for each of your 4 cameras. You would then forward each of these ports
to port 80 of each of the respective cameras, e.g.
port 8180->cam1:80
port 8280->cam2:80
port 8380->cam3:80
port 8480->cam4:80

Then when you access your WANAddress:8180, ... WANAddress:8480, it will redirect to the associated cameras. You just need
to remember the 4 specific ports and how they relate to the cameras.