[atlas] Upgrade existing Anchor to newer hardware

Ok Anand thank you!

regards,

Cathal.

On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 14:43, Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Cathal,
>
> We can certainly support you with this hardware replacement. We have a
> process for this, which triggers various things in our back-end systems.
> One of these steps will be to provide you with a new installer image.
>
> The best approach is to send email to atlas at ripe.net. This will go into
> a ticket queue, and one of my colleagues will handle it. In your email,
> please provide details of all the anchors that you wish to replace.
>
> Regards,
> Anand Buddhdev
> RIPE NCC
>
> On 05/08/2021 14:50, Cathal Mooney wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation, and we have several Atlas
> > Anchor's deployed at various locations.
> >
> > Some time ago the Anchor we had in our location in Dallas, US
> > (p6093.probes.atlas.ripe.net) failed due to a hardware failure.  We
> > are now attempting to replace the Anchor with new hardware which we
> > have installed.
> >
> > The old device was a v2 Anchor (Soekris), however, and the new device
> > is v3 (PC Engines APU.2E2).  Given the newer hardware I expect we will
> > need a different USB image to boot from?  Our hope would be to re-use
> > the previous IP addressing and other details so that does not need to
> > change.
> >
> > What might be the best way to approach this?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Cathal.
> >
> >