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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">valid point<br>
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On 26/11/2014 16:56, Shahin Gharghi wrote:<br>
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Atlas team</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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ask why don't you make software probes?</div>
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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>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763">The other
way to save probes is making probes multi-home.</div>
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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>
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<div dir="ltr">Shahin Gharghi<br>
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