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.
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