EverFocus EMV200 5 Networking Overview

5 Networking Overview

This chapter will give you a basic instruction on how to set up the DVR for network connection. It is highly

recommended that you have a working knowledge of what a network is and how it works. This will be helpful in

completing the networking process.

TCP/IP is the group of protocols used by the Internet and most Local Area Networks (LANs) throughout the world.

In TCP/IP, every computer or other communications device that is connected to the network has a unique IP

address. By doing this you are giving your device a unique address similar to the address of your house. An IP

address is composed of four octets (numbers in the range of 0 to 255) separated by decimal points. The IP

address is used to uniquely identify a host or computer on the LAN. For example, one computer on a network

could have an IP address of 192.168.1.127.

You should never give two or more devices the same exact IP address, but the first three octets of an IP address

is often the same for all computers in the local area network. For example, if a total of 253 computers exist in a

single LAN, the IP addresses could be assigned starting with 192.168.1.x, where x represents a number in the

range of 2 to 254. In IPP address could be compared with a telephone number.

Each host in a LAN has a subnet mask. The subnet mask is a set of octets that is used to determine which LAN or

class it belongs to. The number 255 is usually used to represent the network address portion of the IP address

and a zero is placed at the end to identify the host portion of the address. Basically the subnet mask tells the

devices how the network addresses are organized, and helps to determine which addresses are local and which

are remote (on the other side of the router).

Addressees are either local or remote. A gateway address is composed of four octets separated by decimal

points. The gateway address is used to uniquely identify the device on the LAN that has access to the

communications links connecting to other LANs, WANs and/or the Internet (access to the ‘remote’ addresses).

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