[atlas] Turris Omnia as probe Platform?

Hello,
I don't fully agree here. There're always so many things, which may
involve measurement realiability just on first from the probe. You
always believe, that "hardware" probe is more reliable. Not, it isn't -
current probe itself is quite cheap piece of not-so-powerfull hardware.
And if someone want's to trick measurement, he can - there're so many
ways. You don't have any kind of control on network behind the probe -
and that's more important part in terms of reliable measurements...

Many thing are going virtual around us (even on high-end routing
platforms). Virtualised probe can be more reliable in terms of computing
power compared to small TP-Links & so-on.

Turris itself is very powerfull hardware (and it's open, both HW & SW).
Some kind of integration between Atlas & Turris is good idea in my oppinion.

Requirement of hardware-probe is in 'old-school' point of view. And at
least with v3 of probes, it's harder to keep probe alive (dying
"low-cost" USB flash is big issue...).

With regards,
Daniel

On 4.12.2015 17:39, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:09:14PM +0700, Kessler, Thomas wrote:
>> This might be an interesting platform for running an VM probe?!
> 
> I think there is no lack of "interesting platforms to host a VM", but 
> the point of the discussion was "virtualizing measurements leads to 
> unreliable results as you do not control the hardware well enough" - and
> for that reason, I'd strongly discourage *any* sort of VM solution.
> 
> gert
> 
> 

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