[atlas] Categorize probes (feature request)

Hi Daniel!

On 12.11.2013 10:26, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> On 08.11.2013, at 18:03 , Klaus Darilion <klaus.darilion at nic.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Depending on the measurement, sometimes I want a realistic "user's view" which means using probes in residential areas, and sometimes I want a "backbone" view, which mean using probes in the back-bone (good connected) e.g. to measure my access network or my servers without the delay introduced by the probes access network.
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>> Thus, it would be cool if the probe selection algorithm allows also to choose "residential" probes or "backbone" probes. Maybe this categorization can be done automatically, or probe owners can be asked to specify the probes connectivity manually.
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>> Thanks,
>> Klaus
>
> I understand the question. I am not sure what the answer is, e.g. which categories we should use and how to do the categorisation.
> At the moment the Anchors provide backbone views. Most small probes are at the edge of the network.
I do want to measure the connectivity of the anchors node as this 
actually measures the connectivity of the probes when I assume that the 
anchor nodes are well connected.

I want to test the connectivity from the Internet backbone to my servers 
(similar like the RIPE DNSMON). So for some UDM I want to use "backbone 
nodes" to see if there are problems with my servers, and for other UDMs 
I want to use "residental nodes" to see the end user view.

regards
Klaus