[mat-wg] RIPE Atlas / UDM as a replacement for TTM

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:23:19PM +0200, Philip Homburg wrote:
> In your letter dated Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:53:26 +0200 you wrote:
> >I've been told that UDMs in Atlas "can do what I need" (use RIPE 
> >measurements to prove to our customers that our Internet reachability
> >is good).  It might, but I find it surprising painful, as I can only
> >request pings from "10 probes at a time" in the UDM - and for reasonable
> >accuracy, we'd need something of at least the size of TTM (100+ probes),
> >or *better*, as we know that individual Atlas probes are not expected
> >to have the same network stability as a TTM box ("always up. ALWAYS!") -
> >setting up 30 or more individual UDMs to get 150 clients each to ping our
> >two TTM boxes is... not the way to go.
> 
> These limits are supposed to be there temporary. They are there mainly to
> avoid a rush from probe hosts with losts of credits to overload the system.
> 
> Ultimately, the idea is that should be able to spend the credits you have.
> If you want your limits raised, just ask.

Well, the paragraph above could have been seen as a question, but indeed
it did not have question mark.

So I ask: what's the process to install UDMs with a higher probe count?

Gert Doering
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