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Need to open port 8081 for security camera access away from home network
I am trying to set up my laptop to access my security cameras when I am away from my home network and have found that my IP address is blocking port 8081 which I think is a needed port to access the ...
Kurt..thanks for replying. I tried the instructions in your first link to see if port 8081 would show as open from canyouseeme.org and it times out..Port 37777 (the port I'm using to get to the camera from my home network) shows as open. I'm thinking that port 8081 needs to be open too. On the instructions in your first link number 12 mentions the internal IP address. Is that the IP address of the camera?
8081/TCP can't how open before you have enabled the NAT forwarding for the port 8081/TCP (one to one NAT), the IP address on the LAN is the one the DHCP server assigns to the camera on your LAN, visible in the list of currently connected devices on your router.
Are you convinced the camera does listen on port 8081/TCP on the LAN?
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