Configuring General Settings - HIKVISION DS-96128NI-E16 User Manual

User Manual of Network Video Recorder

9.1 Configuring General Settings

Purpose:
Network settings must be properly configured before you operate NVR over network.
Steps:
1. Enter the Network Settings interface.
Menu >Configuration>Network
2. Select the General 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 click the checkbox of DHCP to automatically obtain an IP address
and other network settings from that server.
The valid value range of MTU is 500 ~ 9676.
4. After having configured the general settings, click Apply button to save the settings.
Working Mode
There are two 10M/100M/1000M NIC cards provided by the 9600NI-E series 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~LAN4 in the NIC type field for parameter settings.
You can select one NIC card as default route. And then the system is connecting with the extranet the data will be
forwarded through the default route.
Net-fault Tolerance Mode: The two NIC cards use the same IP address, and you can select the Main NIC to
LAN1~LAN4. By this way, in case of one NIC card failure, the device will automatically enable another standby
NIC card so as to ensure the normal running of the whole system.
Figure 9. 1 Network Settings Interface
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