Re: assigning block of 5 static IP addresses to network devices

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jeff Fitzsimons <jeff-m/[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Steve Richter
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> > installed by the Verizon installer. The Verizon tech told me to place
> > the IP address of the 2nd router ( 192.168.2.1 ) outside the DMZ of
> > the Verizon router ( 192.168.1.1 ) I tried this, setting something
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> > 192.168.2.1 IP of the 2nd router ( Linksys E3000 ). But the Verizon
> > router said it could not see 192.168.2.1. I called Linksys and they
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> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds to me like you need to
> connect the WAN port of the Linksys to a LAN port on the Verizon
> router. The Verizon router would have no concept of what 192.168.2.x
> is, that's a network which exists only for the Linksys router and
> things connected to it.

the DMZ config part of the router confuses me. Both the ActionTec (
Verizon ) and Linksys prompt for the IP address of the system to be
exposed to the internet. That IP has to be within the router's world:
192.168.1 xxx . What I don't follow is does that exposed system now
receive all the traffic that normally goes to the router?  If the IP
address of the router is 50.25.45.23, will port 80 traffic to that IP
address now be directed to port 80 on the single PC in the DMZ?

anyway, the things I would like to do are the following:

Have a bunch of IP cameras connect to a router that is separate from
the router that all the PCs and Servers are connected to. On the
router with the IP cameras is a PC that is collecting video feeds from
the cameras, listening for motion detection signals.

How do I config things so the individual cameras can be connected to
from the web? I understand port forwarding, but isn't that only for 1
camera?  For each camera you want to connect to, do you have to
specify a port number which is forwarded to a corresponding camera?

I was hoping to use the static IPs to route commands to specific IP
cameras. Verizon is sending traffic for the 5 static IPs down the pipe
to my router.  Shouldn't the router have a config feature where each
IP is routed to a system on the internal network, just like ports are
forwarded to systems on the network?

I can link a domain name with the IP address of a router. To host a
web site at that domain name, forward port 80 traffic to the actual
web server  on the internal network. What do you do when you have a
2nd domain name that you want to host? Can the 2nd domain be linked to
the same IP address, but with a different port number? I thought the
purpose of the multiple static IPs sold by the ISP was to address this
requirement.

In the scenario of two routers, one with a network of IP cameras, the
other a network of PCs and Servers, how do you connect the two
networks together?  Where traffic from the Web flows thru the router
connected to the web and is routed to the network of cameras?

-Steve