[atlas] VM probes (was Re: Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas)

At this time are 485 connected probes and two connected anchors in
Russia. As far as I know Soekris boxes can be bought in Russia.

Daniel

On 10.11.15 10:07 , Pavel Odintsov wrote:
> Hello, Community!
> 
> I like idea about VM based Anchor's.
> 
> For example in Russia we have so much companies who really want to
> host RIPE Anchor hosting but it's really hard due to so much
> bureaucracy for computer hardware import. It's really sophisticated
> and long task.
> 
> VM based Anchors could help in this case. But they should be
> designated as "second-rate monitoring". So somebody who interested in
> monitoring over non-so-reliable-vm's could use they. Actually, this
> VM's should "mine" less points than full-size-Anchor.
> 
> We could select some unified way to run VM's. I prefer VmWare because it's:
> 1) Free
> 2) Simple to deploy
> 3) Mature
> 4) Very simple VM deploy
> 
> Xen, KVM are pretty too but they are based on non standard linux
> distributions and it could be a configuration issue. OpenVZ/Docker and
> LXC should be avoided because (actually I have so much experience with
> they and I'm not a technology hater) they are not offer dedicated
> service and not isolated perfectly from each other processes.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:33:01AM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
>>> >From my personal, informal assessment I advise against supporting VMs. I
>>> recommend a thorough assessment of the data quality, the costs and the
>>> effects on RIPE Atlas as a whole before diving into soloutioneering.
>>
>> From experience running a recursive DNS on a VM platform,  I'd also speak
>> against supporting VMs.  Unpredictable load elsewhere on the same host
>> can (and does) lead to UDP/ICMP packet loss, which the "Atlas VM" won't
>> be able to differenciate from "something on the path is broken/lossy".
>>
>> Gert Doering
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>> have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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