Setting up a DS-7716-SP with some remote cameras over a wireless bridge, need advice.

opjohnny · 2015-04-25T21:58:32+00:00

Sub-contracting the IT side of a camera project my buddy is doing. He is deploying 10 hikvision cameras(unsure of models at this time) and a DS-7716-SP NVR. 2 of those cameras are not plugged directly in to the NVR due to their remote locations, so to address that we deployed a wireless bridge that consists of 1 RocketM5 and 2 NanostationM5. The Rocket is on the building where the NVR is and where all the other cameras terminate to. Each Nanostation is on a light pole just below the remote camera it is connected to. This network had no router or internet connectivity at that point in time, all IPs were statically set. The initial plan was to have the PoE-side of the NVR on that network, and the LAN port of the NVR connected to the client's actual internet-facing network for remote viewing of the NVR. The problem we ran in to was those 2 remotely located cameras were not being picked up by the NVR which I imagine was because there was no router on the network, but if we plugged them directly in to the NVR they worked fine. Do cameras not plugged directly in to the DVR require a DHCP server on the network in order for the NVR to pick them up? Anyways, due to some issues with streaming video over the client's main network, the client opted to bring an internet connection in to the NVR/RocketM5 building just for the camera network. My question is...what would be the correct way to cable this in the NVR closet? We'll have a modem and router in there, so what all do we need to plug in to the router to make this setup work and is there anything in the NVR we need to configure for those two remote cameras to operate properly over the wireless bridge? Thanks.