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Accessing an IP camera behind NETGEAR WN2500 extender
I have installed a Foscam IP camera on my SAGEM wifi network and I have successfully arranged port forwarding etc to access the camera from the outside. Now I have also installed a Netgear WN2500 extender behind the modem to extend the wifi network to a place where I want to locate the camera and in principle this works well. as a next step I now connected the IP camera to the wifi network sent out by the extender and this also works but only when I approach the camera from within my wifi network. I do not succeed in approaching it from the outside world which I really want to do.
does anyone know what I need to do to my extender to make sure that the IP camera is seen. is my port forwarding set in the modem somehow affected or obscured? I have seen that the extender makes a virtual mac address for every device connected and also for the camera. Is this something that should be modified.?/
thanks for help!
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The extender should be transparent as far as port forwarding is concerned. Did you set up a DHCP address reservation for your camera? The camera may have acquired a new IP address when you moved it and rendered the port forwarding ineffective.
Thanks for your contribution and the message that the extender should be transparent as far as port forwarding is concerned. I also do not see any opportunity within the extender to modify this. I did already install a fixed IP adress for the camera, so that is certainlly not the problem. In the mean time I did input the virtual mac address into the modem, so as to link the fixed IP adress to the camera, but that trial is certainly not working.
As said before, as soon as I link the camera to the wifi network sent out by the SAGEM modem, then I can approach the camera successfully.
Does anyone have any suggestion. ? I have scanned the discussion on similar topics,, but from that i have not seen applicable solutions.
Do you have MAC address access control enabled on the SAGEM modem? If you do and the modem failed to accept the virtual MAC address, then you need to resolve that before port forwarding will work. Try temporarily disabling MAC address access control.
