User Manual of DS-91/90HFI-ST/RT/XT & DS-81/80HFI-ST & 91/90/81HWI-ST Series DVR
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9.1
Configuring General Settings
Purpose:
Network settings must be properly configured before you operate device over network.
Steps:
1.
Enter the Network Settings interface.
Menu > Configuration > Network
Figure 9. 1
Network Settings Interface for DS-9000HFI-ST/RT/XT (HWI-ST) & DS-8000HFI-ST
Note:
In network settings interface: The FTP setting is supported by DS-9100/8100HFI-ST (HWI-ST) &
DS-9100HFI-RT/XT series only. We use the interface of DS-9000HFI-ST series (unless stated) as example to
describe the following settings.
2.
Select
tab.
3.
In the
General Settings
interface, you can configure the following settings: Working Mode, NIC Type, IPv4
Address, IPv4 Gateway, MTU and DNS Server.
If the DHCP server is available, you can check the checkbox of
DHCP
to automatically obtain an IP address
and other network settings from that server.
Note:
The valid value range of MTU is 500 ~ 9676.
4.
After having configured the general settings, click
to save the settings.
Working Mode:
There are two 10M/100M/1000M NIC cards provided by the device, and it allows the device to
work in the Multi-address, Load Balance and Net Fault-tolerance modes.
Multi-address Mode:
The parameters of the two NIC cards can be configured independently. You can select
LAN1 or LAN2 in
field for parameter settings.
You can select one NIC card as default route. And when the system is connecting with the extranet the data will be
forwarded through the default route.
Load Balance Mode:
By using the same IP address, and two NIC cards share the load of the total bandwidth,
which enables the system to provide two Gigabit network capacity.
Net Fault-tolerance Mode:
The two NIC cards use the same IP address, and you can select the Main NIC to
LAN1 or LAN2. By this way, in case of one NIC card failure, the device will automatically enable the other
standby NIC card so as to ensure the normal running of the whole system.
