7.7 CONFIGURING THE DVR WITH A ROUTER INTO A LAN
The majority of any network will often consist of a single IP address which shares the internet access
through a router. This IP address may be any external (public) static IP address or any dynamic IP
address issued by the Internet Service Provider.
The purpose of a router is to enable multiple computers and any other devices that require internet
connection to access the internet simultaneously. Most routers by default enable (open) commonly
used ports so that mainstream applications such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP, Port 80), File
Transfer Protocol (FTP, Port 21), Telnet (Port 23) and Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3, Port 110) are
used.
Over the next pages, Linksys WRT54G was used to illustrate a sample of the network connection
process.
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