Accessing two devices with the same IP?

Question

I want to connect my laptop to two WiFi enabled digital cameras, that have the same IP hardcoded: 192.168.1.1

One solution that I've successfully tried:

• Connect one device to the laptop's built in WiFi adapter, and access it at 192.168.1.1:15740. Here 15740 is the standard port for PTP/IP (Picture Transfer Protocol via IP), a protocol for remote controlling cameras.

• Set up a virtual machine with Linux. Attach a USB WiFi adapter to the virtual machine. Use SSH port forwarding to redirect port 15740:

  

  Now the second camera's PTP/IP port can be accessed on the host at: localhost:15740

Is there a solution that doesn't require setting up a virtual machine?

Someone mentioned ForceBindIP, but I couldn't get it to work, at least not with ptp.js:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ForceBindIP.exe {64DD8F7D-8F9A-40DD-BE10-74011D549687} "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe" C:\Scratch\ptp.js\node_demo\app.js capture 192.168.1.1

What I see is a window poping up and down, too fast to read it.

Answer 1

This is a bit of a reach, but its worth a shot. Find the MAC address to each of your cameras, then set up a static ARP mapping on your PC so that each camera has its own IP address. With the static ARP in place, you're machine won't try to resolve the ARP for the made up IP address, and will encapsulate the traffic with the correct MAC address.

That will definitely get the packets to the Camera. The only concern is if the Camera is listening specifically on the 192.168.1.1 IP, or on any IP. AKA, if its listening on localhost:15740, you'll be fine. If its only listening on 192.168.1.1:15740, this will probably not work.