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Shahin Gharghi
shahin at gharghi.ir
Sat Nov 29 08:34:16 CET 2014
Dear Vesna Thank you for your explanation and Thank others for their reply. I think only this reason prevents you to make a software probe : - It is easier to tamper with the results. This is also why we chose not to release a software version in tandem with the hardware solution . And I think the hardware problem could be solved by changing the LAN chipset ( Maybe TPLink do this for you). On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Philip Homburg <philip.homburg at ripe.net> wrote: > Hi Shahin, > > On 2014/11/26 15:56 , Shahin Gharghi wrote: > > 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. > > One thing to keep in mind is that there are very good reasons to try to > keep probes as simple as possible. Even if that means installing 4 > probes in one location. > > Extra complexity translates into extra testing effort and more bugs. > What is gained by using the hardware more efficiently can be lost easily > in more engineering effort. > > At this moment, making a probe multi-homed would be a significant > engineering effort because just about all code implicitly assumes that > every probe has exactly one interface. > > (I assume that from a hardware point of view, VLAN tagging would allow a > probe to be connect to different ethernets) > > Philip > -- Shahin Gharghi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/attachments/20141129/0474f6ef/attachment.html>
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