Why doesn a camera finder tool such as LeCam Client or Bonjour locate cameras on my network?
Camera finder applications use a protocol called Zeroconf (zero configuration networking). These tools send a multi-cast message to identify the Network cameras on your local area network. This procedure will not generally work when using a direct connection between your computer’s network card and a single camera using a cross- over Cat5e cable. If you are using a cross-over cable, you can locate the camera using the link-local IP address (169.254.93+MAC5.MAC6) that is derived from the last two octets of the camera MAC. This address is printed on the white label affixed to your camera. In addition, depending on your network configuration, the multicast messages used to locate cameras may be blocked by a managed switch, router, gateway, or firewall. If your camera finder application identifies the Lumenera network camera and IP address, but you cannot connect to it: 1. Try to ping the camera. This will check to see that your computer can communicate to the camera over your network. 2.
