How do I connect to security camera that is connected to the internet?
You can download nmap at http://insecure.org/nmap/ for the operating system you use and start a port-scan if the port you use for the connection is correct. But most likely the camera is secured by a firewall that prevents request coming from “outside” are blocked so that not everybody in the world can see the current amount of coffee being available at the coffee-machine down the hallway. To find out if it’s a firewall you can do a traceroute. I assume a Windowssystem: – Open a console-window (Start->Run…->cmd.exe) – Type in tracert [ip-address] and press enter There should come up the IP-addresses of the intermediate systems being involved in transporting your IP-packets to the destination. The last IP you can see should be the firewall or the (so called) hop before the firewall.
