Best posts made by fdcastel_709084875846370

God forbid!

While this is a minor problem (Found it yesterday. Changed to static IP + blocked DHCP requests in firewall), if Reolink engineers cannot measure the consequences of their "project decisions" like this one... what should we expect from others -- more sensitive -- areas, like security?

I'm with the others. No more Reolink cameras around here. And this is not a petty thing.

What I would like to see:

- "Hey! Your cameras are spamming all my routers logs with dumb DHCP requests every 5 minutes!"
- "Oh! Sorry. Yeah, that was dumb. There! I Fixed"
- "Nice! Thanks!"

What I actually did see:

- "Hey! Your cameras are spamming all my routers logs with dumb DHCP requests every 5 minutes!"
(2 years later)
- "Anybody?"
- "This was a deliberate decision from our engineering department and they say there is nothing they can do. Believe me."
- "EVEN WHEN STATIC IP IS USED?"
- "..."

Yeah. I'm here trying to figure the average I.Q. from Reolink developers...

@fdcastel_709084875846370 keep it going, what camera's and hardware revision do you have??

@latez1_702748087968371 -- I had 3 units of E1 Zoom (latest models, don't remember exact hardware revision) but I already got rid of them.

That's because I want to keep a healthy distance of any product made by an "engineer" with this kind of brain damage:

"The log you see is the Discover package(the simulated DHCP detection package) of the camera, the camera sends them to check whether the wifi network is good. The camera sends the request package about every 5 minutes. And I ask[ed our engineer] if this can be canceled? He told me no. Because when the camera sends a DHCP Discover packet, if the router receives it, it will reply to the camera, and the camera will know if it is still connected to the router."

Seriously. I loved Reolink products since the first time I found them. But this kind of behavior just prove to me that they don't know sh*t what they are doing.

The development process of Reolink must be something like this: (Google "Wikipedia Infinite monkey theorem")