Ambidexter
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Hi,
The user manual of my DS-9632NI-I8 says I can get the NVR to load balance, if I give both NICs the same IP.
I can certainly do that, but what should I set the "Working Mode" to? "Multi-address" (which seems to be for 2 different networks), or "Network Fault-tolerance" (where one NIC backs up the other)?
There isn't a separate "load balance" option in the dropdown...unless I need to change the IPs or turn off DHCP first...but I wanted to figure out the proper procedure before I create an outage.
-Update: If I set it for "Network Fault Tolerance", I get the same MAC and the DHCP-granted IP no matter which port is plugged in. Both ports are up, and the "not active" port still seems to transmit some frames. Perhaps these ports are trying to work via LACP, in which case, a 2Gbps bundle will result. I check and can't use an LACP switch with this NVR. Removing it I can run on an aggregated interface pair...or natively on the switch ports.
If I set the NVR for "Multiple Address", I can set two addresses and one LAN is used as default. But if I try to make these two NICs have the same address (2 MACs for one address), the NVR complains about duplicate IP, and won't let me save the changes. Instructions say to use LAN2 for cameras and LAN1 for the NVR's IP. This is not the configuration I'm looking for.
Scanning the Internet for "ds-9600NI-I8" and "load balance", I get this manual:
https://www.hikvision.com/uploadfile/image/510567_b.pdf
And it says "Network Functions: 2 self-adaptive 10M/100M/1000M network interfaces, and various working modes are configurable:
multi-address, load balance, network fault tolerance, etc.".
Is this a feature which has been removed in recent releases? And if it was released, why?
Thanks,
Ambi
The user manual of my DS-9632NI-I8 says I can get the NVR to load balance, if I give both NICs the same IP.
I can certainly do that, but what should I set the "Working Mode" to? "Multi-address" (which seems to be for 2 different networks), or "Network Fault-tolerance" (where one NIC backs up the other)?
There isn't a separate "load balance" option in the dropdown...unless I need to change the IPs or turn off DHCP first...but I wanted to figure out the proper procedure before I create an outage.
-Update: If I set it for "Network Fault Tolerance", I get the same MAC and the DHCP-granted IP no matter which port is plugged in. Both ports are up, and the "not active" port still seems to transmit some frames. Perhaps these ports are trying to work via LACP, in which case, a 2Gbps bundle will result. I check and can't use an LACP switch with this NVR. Removing it I can run on an aggregated interface pair...or natively on the switch ports.
If I set the NVR for "Multiple Address", I can set two addresses and one LAN is used as default. But if I try to make these two NICs have the same address (2 MACs for one address), the NVR complains about duplicate IP, and won't let me save the changes. Instructions say to use LAN2 for cameras and LAN1 for the NVR's IP. This is not the configuration I'm looking for.
Scanning the Internet for "ds-9600NI-I8" and "load balance", I get this manual:
https://www.hikvision.com/uploadfile/image/510567_b.pdf
And it says "Network Functions: 2 self-adaptive 10M/100M/1000M network interfaces, and various working modes are configurable:
multi-address, load balance, network fault tolerance, etc.".
Is this a feature which has been removed in recent releases? And if it was released, why?
Thanks,
Ambi
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