Dahua NVR 4104p - can't use dhcp from router

[psycik]

I've just put in one of these nvrs. At the moment the cameras are being remotely accessed (rather than plugged in direct).

one curious problem is no matter what I do, the NVR won't take the assigned dhcp address from my router. It's gets one in the right subnet, but always chooses another address.

do these things have a dhcp server in them? And the setting under network, doesn't act as a client but a server.

does that mean, now that I have it forced to static, that if I connect a camera to it, they wont get an address?

is there a way to get the NVR to be a dhcp client...and yet still hand out addresses to the cameras? I was hoping to run them on their own network.

 

[Stepan]

Dahua NVR can be DHCP client and server at the same time.
As client - LAN port
As server for switches ports
These two networks must be in different network segment.

 

[psycik]

Yeah, weirdly though. DHCP for the cameras is fine. Works as advertised.

But client on the lab port, my NVR seems to be picking up a random address on the correct subnet and never using the one that I assign to its MAC address

 

[Stepan]

NVR has no relation
This configuration only on router side