Analyzing packet traffic

[Helias]

I analyzed the packet traffic of my camera RLC-510A and I saw that it sends packets to the following external IPs:

• 35.180.209.250 (Amazon AWS)
• 3.86.245.53 (Amazon AWS)
• 239.255.255.250

The last IP is for UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)/SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) by various vendors to advertise the capabilities of (or discover) devices on a VLAN. MAC OS, Microsoft Windows, IOS and other operating systems and applications use this protocol (source).

I am wondering why the camera sends packets to Amazon AWS 🤔

[Benehiko]

isn't this just the reolink camera discovery? Since you can connect to the camera via the internet from your phone for example or locally as well without needing to specify a local or public IP address.

You could try switch off this feature on the camera and see if it still reports to these external Amazon servers.

[Helias]

I've found the UPnP option but I can't find the discovery one, where is exactly?