Dear RIPE Atlas team

I want to ask why don't you make software probes?

RIPE NCC have to spend a lot of money on RIPE Atlas. They can easily make RIPE Atlas VMWare image or an RPM,deb package and even windows service. So people can install them on their servers.

The other way to save probes is making probes multi-home.

For example I have 4 probes in one place to monitor 4 different IP prefixes and paths. I know because of the hardware limits we can't use sub-interfaces but we can set 4 IP addresses manually and add 4 any route by the source, then we can save 3 other probes.