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Static IP address or reserved IP address?
Hello: I have a new R7000 router and a new IP security camera system. The cameras record to a NAS (WD MyCloud) on the same network, after the IP address of the NAS has been input to the camera s...
It has the same end result. It allows you to manage the device from a central place (router), rather than having to set up a static IP in the device, as well as making sure the router doesn't hand it out to another device.
Most devices by default use DHCP (or in simple terms, get IP address automatically).
Yes, you would set up your DHCP range to include only a subset of your network, perhaps 128 addresses, and then set an IP reservation tied to the MAC address of the camera system, using an IP address that is outside of the DHCP range. This guarantees that your camera system will always get the same IP (unless you replace it and it has a different MAC address), and no other device will accidentally get this IP from DHCP.
Thanks. Actually, the cameras aren't the problem (they have an automated DDNS through the manufacturer's cloud), it's the NAS that's the problem. How about the "reserved" IP address option in the R7000?
