[atlas] Reasons to celebrate - passed 1K active probes :)

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
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