On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 09:23 -0500, Gordon Williams wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm hoping someone with experience can suggest what is the correct IP
> address for a small LAN.
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> What I have are 2 IP cameras sending images to a computer for storage.  I=
t
> is to record finish bib numbers in a race.
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> The network is stand alone and not connected to the internet.  Each IP
> camera is connected via ethernet cable to a wireless adapter ( a netgear
> WNCE2001) which transmits through wifi to the wireless router (a netgear
> WNR2000v2) and on to the computer through wifi.
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> Right now the router is 10.0.0.1 and the 2 adapters and computer get
> assigned through router DHCP a number 10.0.0.2 to 10.0.0.4.  In the route=
r I
> have reserved addresses for the cameras based on MAC 10.0.0.100 and
> 10.0.0.101 so DHCP always supplies the same IP address to the same camera=
..
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> What I have seems to work mostly OK, but I was told this may not be ideal=
 as
> the cameras are hidden behind the wireless adapters and I should be using=
 a
> different IP addressing.
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> Does this require subnetting for the camera IP addresses or something lik=
e
> that?

No, not if you don't want to.

What you have is fine. There would be no benefit in your case to
subnetting.

Subnetting WAS a big thing when routing was a hard thing to do. These
days the routing hardware is so powerful that subnetting has become less
useful. It is still very important when dealing with LANs with thousands
of devices on it, and it can make things more understandable for the
humans running things.

As for the "hidden behind wireless adapter", sounds like you've got the
adapters set for transparent bridging, so the adapters are "hidden" at
the IP layer, not the cameras. This is perfectly fine. Only small issue
I could see is if you needed to remotely configure the wireless adapters
it might be a little more cumbersome. I do the same thing with my
network enabled printer and after initial configuration I haven't
touched the setup since, it's been rock solid.

TTYL

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