networking - DHCP Pool Range / IP-Camera Setup

06
2014-04
  • Unheilig

    Lately I have been trying to set up a IP-Camera for friends wirelessly.

    I realized on their router its DHCP pool range is from 192.169.2.100 - 192.168.2.200.

    But when I changed the IP address of the IP-Camera to (static) ex. 192.168.2.5 it will still work and be connected for a few hours. I wonder why this is still working because it is obviously out of the range of what their DCHP Pool allows.

    Hours later the IP-Camera would no longer be connected / discovered by the router. But it baffles me that it could be connected in the first place with IP being out of range.

    I am not using Windows Networking Tab to configure the static IP Address for the IP-Camera, because the installation CD claims to do that without. Have not been successful setting it up in their place, although I managed to do so at my home with their camera.

    Their router is on IP 192.168.2.2, by the way.

    Any help / pointer would be much appreciated.

    • Answers
  • PsychoData

    DHCP ranges are just the Dynamically allocated ranges. My bet is that their network is Using 192.168.2.1/24 addressing. or The network 192.168.2.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 (same thing just two ways of saying it) So, when you give them an address of .2.5 It is STILL probably a valid address, just statically allocated. My Guess (cant say anything definite) is that something else is trying to fight with this device for that IP and so neither of them work.

    Try turning off the cameras and seeing if anything will respond to those .2.5 type addresses (statically allocated, not DHCP) maybe they left something else at that address and forgot about it.

    Also, if you can give me your subnet mask I can confirm my suspicions about the IP addressing Scheme. The DHCP range of 2.100-2.200 would seem to support it (since it rules out most normal subnets) but confirming never hurts


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