Recent content by smoothie

You should match what was there previously which was T568B. It doesn't matter if you use A or B on a cable provided that both ends of that cable are the same. If you have A on one end of the cable segment and B on the other you have made a Crossover Cable which is mostly anachronistic these...

I would but I have multiple VMs sharing the same IP and I can't tell which is requesting what from where. This is also why I was hoping not to totally isolate that machine.

Mine is currently running normally fingers crossed hopefully it remains that way. I put a wildcard domain block in my Pihole DNS server for blueirissoftware.com, blueiris.pro and blueiris.software; my OS also resolves the AAAA records along with the A records but so far there haven't been any...

One thing to keep in mind when looking at PTZ cameras is generally the higher the optical zoom the narrower the fully zoomed out view will be. I have the 25x Dahua SD49225XA-HNR and the zoomed out view is considerably narrower than my fixed cams. So I suggest checking the stats on the camera...

I use BI on my flat network at home. Flat being that there are no vLANs or subnets but is instead a single private IP range of 192.168.73.x/24 which includes the cameras. I statically assign the cameras and simply set the default gateway to the wrong value. On my network the gateway is...

Unfortunately it really isn't MaxMinds fault. They are one of many GeoIP companies. IP Addresses are geographically assigned, well they were originally but the demand for IP addresses is such that addresses such as 1.1.1.1 which is a CloudFlare public DNS server technically belongs in Australia...

Here is a visualization of the kind of activity your internet connection must endure. This is a screenshot of my firewall being attacked by a set of public IP addresses from the Netherlands (NL). This is an arbitrary week that I picked at random out of my logs from 2021/07/15 to 2021/07/22. I do...

The easy rule of thumb is if you want to have a segmented network with vLANs or Virtual Local Area Networks or some other higher level function you will want to get a "managed" switch. If you are like the overwhelming majority of home users and simply want a switch that works the "unmanaged"...

Totally understandable but be mindful of future expansion. Slightly larger switches with more ports usually don't cost much more than their smaller siblings with fewer ports. Having that space to expand in the future may prove very valuable some day.

I agree with what others in this thread have stated, that port forwarding is not secure, not safe and simply a bad idea. A VPN run on a quality edge device is the most secure method of remote access. An "edge device" is the division between your private LAN(s) and the open internet, this is...

I am using a Netgear GS752TP and have been totally happy with it. It has PoE+ for my PTZs and PoE for my varifocals and Ruckus WiFi APs. Stable and reliable.

The time stamp is from the cameras which are synced to a stratum 2 time source every minute. The feeds record direct to disk in BI so no overlay there.

I am experiencing an odd BI behavior. This started after I recently updated from a version 4.x to version 5.x using the in app updater. I have repaired the DB. I have deleted and rebuilt the DB. I have rebooted the machine, I have installed the minor newer versions of BI as they became...

Thanks for the suggestion, I was not aware that you could access a Hikvision NVR that way. I shall give it a go next time I am at that facility and report back here.

Hi Everyone. I have a situation that I can't seem to figure out and I am hoping someone on here with more Hikvision knowledge might be able to help. A business has a Hikvision NVR with 12 IP cameras directly attached. The boss would like to have a screen in a common area that displays only a...