<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763">Dear RIPE Atlas team</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763">I want to ask why don't you make software probes?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763">RIPE NCC have to spend a lot of money on RIPE Atlas. They can easily make RIPE Atlas VMWare image or an RPM,deb package and even windows service. So people can install them on their servers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763">The other way to save probes is making probes multi-home.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763">For example I have 4 probes in one place to monitor 4 different IP prefixes and paths. I know because of the hardware limits we can't use sub-interfaces but we can set 4 IP addresses manually and add 4 any route by the source, then we can save 3 other probes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763"> </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Shahin Gharghi<br></div></div>
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