[KLUG Members] Re: viewing camera over web

[Joe McLaughlin]

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> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:49:42 -0400
> From: Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com>
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Viewing camera over web
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> Joe McLaughlin wrote:
>> I have a camera - call it 192.168.0.80
>> I would like to veiw it from another place --- maybe even from Germany.
>>
>> I can view the camera from my own pc now!
>> I use Charter cable & a netgear wgr614 router
>> Everything on my side of the router has the same sub net id 255 255 255 0
>>
>> What do I have to change to get it to work
>> What web command do I type in to get it to work
>> Once it works how to I secure it?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Joe
> The main thing you need is a way to find it from the outside.  You need
> to know your Internet IP address:  the one that Charter assigns to your
> router.  The best way to do this is to sign up with a dynamic DNS
> service like dynip.com, yi.org, dyndns.org or similar.  You will run a
> small client program on the router or on the PC behind it that will let
> the dynamic DNS service know where your router is, then you can connect
> to it by the name that you registered with the DNS service.
>
> You will also need to tell the router to forward requests for the
> camera's port number from the outside to the machine that runs the
> camera server.  The camera's inside IP address will need to be static.
>
> How to secure it, I'm afraid I have no idea.  There should be some way
> of doing that with the software that runs the camera.
>
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