1   Introduction

The CARRIDA Dragon camera comes with DHCP network configuration by default. This makes it easier for you to use it in your local network during initial setup and installation.

For an installation at a site, it can be preferrable to assign a static IP address to a camera. The procedure to do so is described in this appliction note.

2   Manual IP setup

The configuration of the camera for a static IP address needs to be done from the command line for CARRIDA firmware versions <= 4.6.9

1 Access the terminal interface on the camera using SSH as admin user.

2 Backup the /etc/network/interfaces file.

sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces /root/etc/network/interfaces.1

3 Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file so that it contains the new settings. You need to be admin user.

# the Dragon  lan interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static

# your new configuration
address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway aaa.bbb.ccc.eee
dns-nameservers aaa.bbb.ccc.eee

4 Restart the camera to make the new settings effective.

Make sure that you double check the new settings so that you do not lose access to the camera with a wrong configuration.