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Configuring DSL Modem & Router for IP Camera's

Asked by: KWJohn

I have spent quite a fair amount of time to try to figure this out and to no avail.

I have a pretty good understanding of Networking and of the Internet but this one has still got me baffled. Several times I have wanted to throw the hands up in the air and give up but I am not going to give up until I have it working, it has to be do-able. So that's why I joined experts-exchange!

I have Qwest DSL, M1000 modem and a block of 8 static IP's (because I could not get it to work previously with a single Static IP) and didn't want to deal with having to update dyndns all of the time with the new IP address. Recently found out a router can do the DDNS it if I get things setup correctly.

Still banging around the idea of keeping the multiple static IP's and a Cisco 851W Enterprise router if I can't get the following to work.

I am trying to set the M1000 to transparent bridging with VIP and then setup a WRT54G router as the gateway. Have the WRT54 do DHCP to a limited area of address' for misc PC's on the network (wired & wireless). And also have a few things setup on the network with static IP's (192.168.0.###, not the ISP/DSL static IP's) such as the IP camera's, a network hard drive (which I would like to be able to access remotely), etc..

When trying this I set the WRT to the ISP/DSL IP address 63.228.73.### and then my network IP becomes 63.228.73.### and not the 192.168.0.### which I would like to keep it at.

Also what would the topology be for the M1000 and the WRT? -

DSL Modem -> WRT (w/wireless) internet or ethernet -> Switch -> Network

Forgot to mention... I need to access the camera's remotely ((easily) and that I acquired a domain and domain name from Godaddy.com for access to the camera's i.e.- ourdoggiecam.us

Probably didn't need to do that since their ip camera's huh, but would be nice to just put in a easy web address like that to access them.

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards
KJ

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Asked On
2009-10-05 at 10:48:40ID24786285
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Qwest

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M1000

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WRT54G

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Linksys/Cisco WVC210

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D-Link DCS920

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Computer Modems

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Network Routers

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DSL Lines / Cable Internet

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Answers

 

by: Darr247Posted on 2009-10-06 at 01:42:48ID: 25502887

Do you know what version WRT54G you have?  It should tell in a small silver/black rectangle on the barcode label stuck to the bottom of it. That's the only place Linksys puts the version# on them.

 

by: 602650528Posted on 2009-10-06 at 01:59:04ID: 25502982

Let me try and understand what you want to achieve. You want to be able to remotely access the camera and network drive using the one single public IP  63.228.73.### configured on the WRT ?

If my assumption is correct; your topology (DSL Modem -> WRT (w/wireless) internet or ethernet -> Switch -> Network)  is fine.  4  things need to be done;

1. Configure the camera and harddrive with static private IPs (192.168.0.x). Not dynamically allocated by DHCP but within same subnet with DHCP allocated IPs.
2. Register for a free service with dydns (https://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/)
3. Configure the WRT54 dydns section with the username/password/domain-name from dydns registration
4. Configure the WRT54 port forwarding for the camera & hard drive
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Linksys/WRT54G/default.htm
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Linksys/WRT54G/WRT54Gindex.htm


I hope the above helps.

I am using it as above to remote access my computer at home and to host my FTP service.

regards

 

by: KWJohnPosted on 2009-10-06 at 16:05:20ID: 31637988

Hey Thanks! Yeah I gave up an the block of static IP's changed it back to dynamic. Set the modem to transparent bridging (which was something I hadn't done before) set everything up in the router and let the router do PPPoE. I then set a few of the things up with static IP's (things I wanted to access remotely) and a few for DHCP - PC's, laptop's, etc.. I set-up the dyndns stuff in the router and it is updating (already had a change and it updated it right away). So everything's working... Thanks again!

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