I just got a Hikvision Hilook IPC-D650H after hearing good things about the brand. First thing I did was plug it into my POE+ L3 core switch for configuring (instead of mounting up a ladder and then finding an issue like this one). I watched my DHCP server for it to take an address so I could jump onto the web console but nothing showed up. After a long wait and power cycling the camera I looked at the switch logs. There were no IP Helper events and the switch port was going offline/online about every 60 seconds (flapping).
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