We use MikroTik RouterBOARD 2011UiAS thanks to his 19" Rack Design
for our technical workshop (without internet connection)
to connect and test IP-Cameras.
We use a PC and his Internet Browser (DHCP) and
IP-Cameras (static IP) and
IP-Joystick Controllers (static IP).
I have attached
on EHTHER 2
a PC
—> DHCP, connected with 192.168.88.253
on EHTHER 3
another PC
—> DHCP, connected with 192.168.88.254
on EHTHER 3
an IP Videocamera with
static IP 192.168.1.188
—> I cannot reach it via PC
—> What do I need to set-up at the 2011UiAS?
There are a few things that could be causing problems.
First, are all three interfaces on a bridge? If they are, remove ether3 from the bridge and give it a static IP on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so that the router is aware of that subnet. That should allow the router to route packets between the subnets and you should be able to access the cameras and NVR from your PCs.
If you’ve reset to factory defaults, then ether1 is probably configured as a WAN port and the rest of the ports are on a bridge.
This bridging is partially done in hardware and partially done in software (depending on your router model) and gives you an approximation of a switch-like functionality across multiple interfaces which in pure router terms would otherwise be on different network segments.
RouterOS devices are not something which you can plug in and use without any consideration of the setup, although your usecase would not have worked with any router which did not use 192.168.1.0/24 as the LAN subnet in any case.
Can you please provide your config, following the syntax in my signature? You enter the command in a terminal window and then download the file this creates from the Files tab in Winbox.
I guess it’s not necessary to disband bridge … simply add IP address from 192.168.1.x subnet to bridge interface and set webcam to use it as default gateway. Different IP subnets don’t have to be on different ethernet segments (although they usually are, one of reasons is tgat only one DHCP server can run in single ethernet segment, other IP subnets have to be statically configured).
If you can’t change default gateway on web cam, then you have to add NAT rule
The “Add New” button just above the table seems like good choice. Then put e.g. “192.168.1.1/24” in “Address” field, select “bridge” in “Interface” dropdown, then click “OK” button, and there you go, router has new address. Easy, isn’t it?
The 2011UiAS Router IP is per default 192.168.88.1
To let the 2011UiAS Router accept and handle static IP’s from other devices (eg. camera 192.168.1.188).
he needs to change its own IP address to the beginning of the range where the static IP is located: 192.168.1.x ?
Not necessarily, change would mean that also everything else would have to be changed (dhcp, other devices with static addresses), but you can just add another address, so router will have two.
So, it is necessary to add another IP address (as second identity of the 2011UiAS) to the beginning of the range where the static IP of the devices to be connected is located: 192.168.1.x ?
If your camera has 192.168.1.188, then the full address with netmask is most likely 192.168.1.188/24, which would mean that camera’s subnet contains 192.168.1.. And camera’s default gateway, if it has any, is most likely 192.168.1.1. So “192.168.1.1/24” is good choice as the address you should add. Don’t touch anything else. If after that you can access camera from PC, than that’s it, happy end. If not, try to add NAT rule posted by @mkx.
