Forward camera port for static IP address

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Forward camera port for static IP address

Hi.

I have a Foscam camera which I have used with a Netgear modem-router. I used UPNP to forward its port to my IP address. My ISP then gave me an address which accesses my own non-static IP at all times.

I have now purchased and installed the AirPort Extreme, and I need to setup my camera. Everything is working properly, other than external access to the camera.

I have disabled the camera's UPNP as I understand AirPort doesn't support it. I added a port forward option for both TCP and UDP for the camera's private IP. However, I still cannot get the camera to work.

I tried to change various options - toggled the NAT PMP, camera's UPNP, added a default host, but nothing seems to work - I can't access the camera externally.

Appreciate any assistance.

Edit: It is interesting that when I try to browse the camera webpage (from an external internet source), I get the 'server not found' message faster for all ports I do not use, and it is significantly slower for the port I forward (8000). So something does appear to be working...

Airport Extreme 802.11ac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Sep 24, 2014 8:04 AM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Sep 24, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Community User

If your a Netgear GS105E (or any other switch that supports port mirroring), run Wireshark between the WAN port of Airport and the ISP, and see what traffic you get on port 8000. Were you using port 8000 with the Netgear to access the camera?

I that shows no issues, then do the same thing on the LAN side between the Airport and Foscam camera.

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Answer 2

Sep 25, 2014 12:35 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks for the reply.

I can't run wireshark (I don't know how, anyway) on the camera, but I tried to add a port forward for my laptop and ran wireshark there.

Then, I accessed from an external network my IP:port, and I did see some activity (obviously, there's no one to answer on port 12345).

This is the response:

http://imgur.com/RTYvGzB

So it appears something is working, but I am not sure why my camera doesn't "get" it when I try to access its port (where it does work with the internal IP).

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Answer 3

Loner T

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Sep 25, 2014 5:42 AM in response to Community User

The TCP handshake never seems to complete. You can compare it to the same capture when accessing the camera on the LAN and you will see the TCP three-way handshake complete.

You can also get to your camera via an ssh tunnel to a different host in your local LAN, and running the camera client on the local machine through the ssh tunnel.

But port-forwarding should work. Can you post a screen shot of your Airport port-forwarding configuration?

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Answer 4

Sep 25, 2014 1:11 PM in response to Loner T

Thanks for the responses, using wireshark I saw that the port is, in fact, forwarded correctly, but the camera didn't get that for some reason. The problem was in the gateway and router address in my camera configuration.

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Answer 5

Loner T

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Sep 25, 2014 2:07 PM in response to Community User

I assume your Camera is working now.

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Answer 6

Sep 26, 2014 5:07 AM in response to Loner T

YES.

Thank you for your replies .

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