Hi Everyone,
This is my first post, but I've been reading a lot on here.
Here's our business's situation:
We have a network (It needs to be rewired because there's two main switches in two different locations tied together by really long patch cables - but that's beside the point). Our network has about 10 users in the office and one computer being used out in the shop, a few networked printers and other small devices, all networked to a windows server. The windows server acts as a DHCP server as well as runs active directory for the users and has file sharing for our database program and other miscellaneous files.
Basically it's set up like this:
All on 192.168.1.x
Modem/Router (TWC) ==Network Cable==> Firewall ==>Network Cable==>Switch 1
Switch 1 goes to half of the computers and devices, and also a cable to Switch 2 (different room)
Switch 2 goes to the other half of devices as well as the server (Same room as switch 2)
This network has worked for us for a long time, however we now have an added challenge: we would like to add IP cameras to our network.
However, with adding IP cameras from my reading, I have decided we don't want them clogging up our network, so I will be creating a new network for this purpose.
I purchased a router, a PoE switch, a synology disk station, and am ready to create the network. I understand that I can create a closed network and not attach it to the other network, and I'll have no trouble at all, however, the purpose of IP cameras is to make it so I can view them on any computer. I would like to start the IP cameras on 192.168.2.x, however, if I do this, I can't access them on a different subnet such as 192.168.1.x, right?
Here are my questions in that regard:
- If I plug the WAN port on the camera network into one of the ports on one of the main switches, and have dhcp on the camera router on, will the windows server try to give dhcp addresses to the cameras, or will it not interfere?
- If I plug the WAN port on the camera network into one of the ports on one of the main switches, will this slow down the other network, even though no data is technically going across those switches?
- I would be able to access internet on the camera network in this setup, correct?
Sorry for the long post, but I just would really like to understand this!
This forum is great..thanks all
This is my first post, but I've been reading a lot on here.
Here's our business's situation:
We have a network (It needs to be rewired because there's two main switches in two different locations tied together by really long patch cables - but that's beside the point). Our network has about 10 users in the office and one computer being used out in the shop, a few networked printers and other small devices, all networked to a windows server. The windows server acts as a DHCP server as well as runs active directory for the users and has file sharing for our database program and other miscellaneous files.
Basically it's set up like this:
All on 192.168.1.x
Modem/Router (TWC) ==Network Cable==> Firewall ==>Network Cable==>Switch 1
Switch 1 goes to half of the computers and devices, and also a cable to Switch 2 (different room)
Switch 2 goes to the other half of devices as well as the server (Same room as switch 2)
This network has worked for us for a long time, however we now have an added challenge: we would like to add IP cameras to our network.
However, with adding IP cameras from my reading, I have decided we don't want them clogging up our network, so I will be creating a new network for this purpose.
I purchased a router, a PoE switch, a synology disk station, and am ready to create the network. I understand that I can create a closed network and not attach it to the other network, and I'll have no trouble at all, however, the purpose of IP cameras is to make it so I can view them on any computer. I would like to start the IP cameras on 192.168.2.x, however, if I do this, I can't access them on a different subnet such as 192.168.1.x, right?
Here are my questions in that regard:
- If I plug the WAN port on the camera network into one of the ports on one of the main switches, and have dhcp on the camera router on, will the windows server try to give dhcp addresses to the cameras, or will it not interfere?
- If I plug the WAN port on the camera network into one of the ports on one of the main switches, will this slow down the other network, even though no data is technically going across those switches?
- I would be able to access internet on the camera network in this setup, correct?
Sorry for the long post, but I just would really like to understand this!
This forum is great..thanks all
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