ACTi E77 Hardware Manual

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www.acti.comHardware Manual40Accessing the CameraConfigure the IP AddressesIn order to be able to communicate with the camera from your PC, both the camera and the PChave to be within the same network segment. In most cases, it means that they both should havevery similar IP addresses, where only the last number of the IP address is different from eachother. There are 2 different approaches to IP Address management in Local Area Networks – byDHCP Server or Manually.Using DHCP server to assign IP addresses:If you have connected the computer and the camera into the network that has a DHCP serverrunning, then you do not need to configure the IP addresses at all – both the camera and the PCwould request a unique IP address from DHCP server automatically. In such case, the camerawill immediately be ready for the access from the PC. The user, however, might not know the IPaddress of the camera yet. It is necessary to know the IP address of the camera in other to beable to access it by using a Web browser.The quickest way to discover the cameras in the network is to use the simplest networksearch, built in the Windows system – just by pressing the “Network” icon, all the cameras of thelocal area network will be discovered by Windows thanks to the UPnP function support of ourcameras.In the example below, we successfully found the camera model that had just connected to thenetwork.VoIPon www.voipon.co.uk sales@voipon.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1245 808195 Fax: +44 (0)1245 808299