[atlas] Reasons to celebrate - passed 1K active probes :)
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Rodolfo kix Garcia
kix at kix.es
Fri Dec 23 17:27:48 CET 2011
On 23/12/11 12:12, Philip Homburg wrote: > On 12/23/11 10:17 , Stephane Bortzmeyer 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 > 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/
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