Technical Note: Behind a firewall or on a broadband router

The information in this article applies to:

• Axis network camera products from F/W version 2.12 and Axis video servers from F/W version 3.01.

Summary

This article explains how to use the Axis network video product behind a firewall or a broadband router.

More information

If the Axis Network Camera is located on a network behind a firewall or a broadband router, you may still have live images on your Web.

The easiest and best solution is to set up a "bypass tunnel" through the broadband router or firewall. This is simply a mapping of a TCP port on the router or firewall to port 80 (http) on the Axis network video product. Please consult your firewall or broadband router's manual.

If the port mapping method is unavailable we recommend that you buffer the images on a standard Web server.

Configure the Axis Network Camera to deliver images sequentially to an FTP server that is available on the Internet as well as behind your firewall. You do this by using the set-up wizard in the product.

If you want your viewers to have live updated images, you can use the same methods described in the "Live video on a high hit rate site" example or if you only want updated snapshots, take a look at he "Live Images" example .

Axis does not take any responsibility for how these configuration changes may affect your system. If the modification fails or if you get other unexpected results, you may have to restore the factory default settings as described in the User’s Manual.