User guide

Networking Menu
6-20 Configuration and User Guide
• IP address
•Host name
• Domain name
• Friendly name
• AD Defined Custom Data:
• Camera model
• Camera serial number
• MAC address
• VideoEdge API version
• VideoEdge URL
•IDP port.
Zero Configuration Networking
Zero configuration networking (or Zeroconf) is a set of techniques for automatically creating IP
networks. Apple's Bonjour protocol is one of the most common implementations of Zeroconf.
Zeroconf will provide:
• Address assignment
• Name resolution
• Service discovery.
Implementation
To facilitate development a third party implementation of the Bonjour protocol provided by Apple
will be used to provide Bonjour discovery functionality in the camera.
Address Assignment
This will be handled by OS services.The camera will attempt to obtain an address from a DHCP
server. If this fails the IP Dome will be assigned a Static IP Address of 192.168.0.80.
Service Discovery
In order to advertise services via the Bonjour protocol, the service types must first be registered
via Apple in the Service Type Registry. American Dynamics has registered the following service
types:
• ve-encoder
• ve-recorder
• ve-decoder
• ntlx-video
•ntlx-ent
• ntlx-arch
The camera will advertise the following services:
• _ve-encoder._tcp
• _http._tcp