[atlas] does a probe "know" the AS# it is living in?

Philip Homburg wrote:

> Hi Wilfried,
> 
> 
> On 2014/02/19 11:02 , Wilfried Woeber wrote:
> 
>>a small group of people is starting to develop an idea for a new measurement
>>and I am a memeber of that team.
>>
>>Now I wonder: does a probe know the AS number it is living in, or is this
>>a piece of information that is maintained by the collectors and the various
>>pieces of central programs and the display software?
> 
> 
> Probes are not really aware of anything. They report what they find, but
> any policy decisions are taken on the controllers and higher up.
> 
> Not that that should stop you trying to describe what you want :-)

Thanks Philip, :-)

The background is an idea to generate some sort of unique ID (in a payload) for
a measurement that includes both the Probe-ID and the AS# it is connected to/served by,
plus potentially the probes IPv[46] Address.

We are in the very, very early stages of brainstorming.

> Philip

Wilfried