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

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On 2015/11/10 14:05 , Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:50:41PM +0100, Philip Homburg wrote:
>> For ordinary probes, we have absolutely no control over the
>> network. Probe hosts don't have to guarantee anything. So I
>> wonder if blackbox testing would even allow distinguishing
>> between an overloaded VM and a probe on a very bad consumer
>> line.
> 
> But isn't this a significantly different statement?  "Here's a bad
> line" is something you can only assess if you know that your probe
> is sane.

True. I assumed measuring a remote target. If you want to say
something about the probe's access network then of course that doesn't
work.

Philip



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