On 23/12/11 12:12, Philip Homburg wrote:
I hope that, in 2012, we'll celebrate the release of the source code, with instructions on how to build your own probe and/or to add measurements. Looking at it purely from a technical point of view, releasing the
On 12/23/11 10:17 , Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: source code should be doable. Of course it will require time to clean it up a bit and make it run on a generic Linux system instead of just on Lantronix modules.
But I have no idea how we could allow probes with unknown firmware connect to the atlas infrastructure. At moment we can rely on the probes to faithfully report what they see. And we know exactly what software the probes are running.
You can release the source code in git/mercurial/... and the probes can run the same (open) source code. People can help to get a better source code. This is a good point because, if the source code is available, some people can implement the probe in other devices, for example linux-based DSL routers (open-wrt,...). If some people want to run different code, they need the interface to communicate with the atlas infrastructure (commands, arguments,...), and probably this info is in the source code ;-) therefore, you won't have problems.
When probes can run arbitrary firmware, analyzing the results may become much harder.
Best Regards, kix -- ||// //\\// Rodolfo "kix" Garcia ||\\// //\\ http://www.kix.es/