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some level by organizing hosts into logical g roups. Subnet masks
contain four bytes and usually appear in the sa me "dotted decimal"
data. For e xample, a very comm on subnet ma sk in it s binary
demonstration 11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000 will usually be
shown in the corresponding, more readable form as 255.255.255.0.
Gateway:
A gateway is a piece of so ftware or hardware that passes information
between networks. You'll see this term most often when you either log
in to an Inte rnet site or when you're transient email between different
servers.
DNS:
When you send email or position a browser to an Internet domain such
as xxxxx.com, the domain name system translates the names into IP
addresses. The term refers to two things: the conventions for naming
hosts and the way the names are control across the Internet.
Enable ARP/Ping
Enable the camera to accept ARP or ping packet s from the network. If
disable this option may provide extra security from intentional ping.
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3.8.2 Network Advanced Settings
NTP Configuration
Configure a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server so that the camera
system date and time can be syn chronized with a specifie d Time
Server. This configuration is provided for one of the p otions of system