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[Zonie]

I am looking for online information on the basic setup of remote connections. Here is the situation I am looking for and keep in mind, I have no problems for VPN's on internal networks. I have a client who has a business that has had a problem with attempted breakins at their landscaping company.

They have purchased (12) cameras placed in various locations to cover the premise. The software allows them to veiw the 12 locations at once. They want me to set up a vpn to allow them to use the software at (2) homes to view the same views. They are using broadband at both locations for faster speed. Their ISP does not have a static IP and the PC the cameras are connected to is behnd a linksys router and does have a static IP. The software has a setting where you can enter an IP address of the PC so as to download the feed from the cameras in real time. I need to know how to set this up to get to the IP address on the camera PC to feed to the remote locations. I am not real familiar with this type of remote connections and need to learn more. I have googled and came up mostly with internal connections through servers. They do not have a server, theirs is a PTP network since it is a small network.

Any help appreciated.

[emr]

Well if you want to access the cameras on the LAN behind the router from the internet you have two choices. Either VPN into the network from which you can access the LAN IP's of the cameras or give each camera a different port number and open these on the router to forward to each one.

As you have no server and I suspect the Linksys router probably doesn't support end point VPN you don't have a lot of choice but to open ports on the router.

What model is the Linksys; maybe it does support VPN?

To get over the dynamic WAN IP you can use a service such as www.dyndns.org

Good luck,

emr

[Zonie]

I won't need to assign each camera a different port, as the software takes care of the cameras. What I need is info on how to setup a vpn tunnel through the router to gain access to the IP of the one station. This is what I am not well versed in.

The router model I am not sure of. I would have to go to the location which is about 30 miles away. The router, (Linksys) is about a year old and is a standard (4) port which means it is probably similar to the model BEFSR41. Thank you for any help.