Re: [88attendees] RIPE Atlas probes at IETF 88

Since Stephane's supply is already spoken for, if another ambassador can
bring one for me, that would be great.

  Bill

On 30/10/2013 11:48 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> If you don't know the RIPE Atlas probes, they are small boxes that you
> connect to the network and which performs active measurements
> <https://atlas.probe.net/>. The great things about these probes is
> that you can run your very own measurements
> <https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm>, leading to interesting/funny papers
> like
> <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/all-ip-addresses-are-equal-dot-zero-addresses-are-less-equal>.
>
> More Atlas probes are always good, specially outside of Europe, where
> the majority currently works. To help the distribution of probes,
> there are people ("ambassadors") at many meetings, carrying Atlas
> probes to distribute. In Vancouver, I'll be one of them.
>
> If you are interested to host an Atlas probe to help mankind and the
> Internet, please:
>
> * check that you can host a probe: you need power-over-USB and
> Ethernet cabling and IP addresses (RFC 1918 are OK) and to take care
> of the box (some probes have been installed by forgotten and no longer
> respond, which is sad). Check also if there is sufficient coverage or
> not in your country/AS
> <https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/>
>
> * send me (or another ambassador) an email so that I know how many
> probes to bring in sunny Bristih Columbia
>
> Happy networking!
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