IP cam and cascaded routers

[BinaryPi]

I am cascading a xfinity wifi router XB3(main) and a netgear r7000(cascaded lan to lan).

Using the same SSID on both routers. Netgear in same subnet. No issues with internet access. On either. I have port forwarding setup on the main to be cameras.

Using foscam FI8910 cameras. I use the OWLR Foscam app. I have no issues viewing cameras externally outside of the WiFi zones.
If I add the camera while on the netgear WiFi then I can view the cameras internally only while connected to netgear WiFi. If I move over to the xfinity WiFi I lose the internal access to the cameras. And vice versa if I add cams from xfinity WiFi they are viewable internally until I move onto the netgear WiFi.

I want to be be able to view the cameras seamlessly between the two WiFi zones.

Anybody help me out here. Thanks.

Was going to setup the cascaded router as a different SSID in the same subnet and see if that’s the issue.

Thanks

 

[bill001g]

Not sure what you did wrong. When you have the netgear connected lan-lan it is running as a AP. You need to be sure the dhcp is disabled and the lan ip does not conflict. None of the port forwarding or any options like that have any effect when you are running as a AP. Almost all these features only work when traffic passed wan-lan. The WiFi radios are logically hooked to the lan/switch ports so they do not pass through the "router" part of your netgear.

It really should not matter what the SSID are...at least as far as accessing the camera. The camera only knows your mac/ip address it has no way to tell if you are connected via ethernet or wifi or whatever. Different/same SSID is more a issue with your end device not always connecting to the "best" signal. Mostly this is a personal preference related to wifi roaming, the actual data connection to the cameras should not be affected.

 

[Ralston18]

Wondering if port forwarding is somehow involved and curious about your internal IP addresses:

Xfinity XB3 router perhaps being 10.0.0.1 (default) and the Netgear most likely 192.168.1.1

What IP addresses are assigned to the foscam camera's?

What about port forwarding - may be some quirky behavior taking place.

E.g.:

https://www.foscam.com/Faqs/view/id/24.html

Depending on the router "in play" the camera access flip-flops...

Make a device table listing with the following columns:

Device, IP address, Subnet Mask, Static (Y/N), DHCP-Server-IP, Wired/Wireless, Port Forwarding. etc..

Just to summarize the setup and corresponding configurations.

May be useful to see the "big picture" and identify something amiss.

Going out of my comfort zone with respect to the problem at hand but, right or wrong, a summary table may prove helpful.









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