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Firewalling for the Dlink DI-784






 

Before we can open ports for ActiveWebCam, we need to figure out what ports ActiveWebCam++ is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up ActiveWebCam and get into the camera you want to modifies settings.



At the top of the camera's properties page click the Broadcasting link.



There are two things on this page that require opening a port. If you have Remote Access enabled, you need to open the port in the remote accesses section's Port box. You can change the port that is in that box if you like. Please enter the port for Remote Access into the box below. If you are not using Remote Access just leave this box blank.

ActiveWebCam's port for remote access



The HTTP Server is the second thing in Active WebCam that requires port opening. The Port box in the Http Server section contains the port number that must be opened for the HTTP Server. You can change that port number if you like. Please enter the port you are using for the HTTP Server into the box below. If you are not using the HTTP Server just leave this box blank.

ActiveWebCam's port for the HTTP Server

To configure this router's firewalling properly you should setup a static ip address on your computer. Take a look at our Static IP Address guide to setup a static ip address. When you are finished setting up a static ip address, please come back to this page and enter the ip address you setup in the Static IP Address box below.

Do not skip this step!




Open a web browser like internet explorer or Netscape. Enter the ip address of your router in the address bar of your browser. In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the ip address of your router. By default the ip address should be set to 192.168.0.1.




You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default the username is admin, and the password is blank. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.




Click the Advanced button near the top of the page.

The menu on the left should change. In this new menu, click Firewall.




We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to setup your router's firewall for Active Webcam. Go ahead and enter the settings shown below into the Firewall Rules menu and then click Apply.
  Enabled Disabled
Name
Action Allow Deny
  Interface IP Range Start IP Range End Protocol Port Range
Source  
Destination -
Schedule Always
You should see another page of settings below that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Firewall Rules page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Apply.
  Enabled Disabled
Name
Action Allow Deny
  Interface IP Range Start IP Range End Protocol Port Range
Source  
Destination -
Schedule Always

And that is it! You are done!