Hi,

In the research & education networking world, perfSONAR is the tool commonly 
used for this.  It’s open source, free and available at 
https://www.perfsonar.net/.  The CERN experiment infrastructure around the 
world has ~1000 perfSONAR nodes deployed, for example.

It can be used on everything from Raspberry Pi for Gigabit links up to 100G 
Ethernet links using well-specified and tuned servers.  It runs continuous loss 
and latency tests, and (by default) throughput tests to configured destinations 
every 6 hours.  Its pScheduler component ensures throughput tests are scheduled 
to be non conflicting.  Such tests can use for example iperf2, iperf3 or Ethr. 

There was a talk yesterday about perfSONAR on Pi devices and with Docker - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbYpK2PtVnI, and a more general perfSONAR talk 
at UKNOF in December - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj8_cLLDQ2g.

Tim

> On 1 Feb 2022, at 12:57, Ponikierski, Grzegorz via ripe-atlas 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> AFAIK Atlas probes cannot be scripted and they were never designed to do 
> speed tests. Folks form RIPE can correct me if I'm wrong. What you look for 
> can be probably fulfilled by other measurement tools like for example 
> SamKnows but I don't know if they sell probes for individuals. Alternatively, 
> you can build your custom software probe on Raspberry Pi 4.0 which has enough 
> computing power and real 1G link to do proper test.
>  
> Regards,
> Grzegorz
>  
> From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <[email protected]>
> Organisation: Omadhina Internet Services
> Reply to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday 2022-02-01 at 13:10
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [atlas] How to measure ISP speed/uptime via Atlas Probes
>  
> Ray,
>  
> thanks.
>  
> I meant more or less continuously, but your comment makes sense.
>  
>  
> I assume I can look at uptime by downloading JSON from the GUI. Is there a way
> of scripting this? Has anyone looked at this using R?
>  
> el
>  
>  
> On 01/02/2022 13:29, Ray Bellis wrote:
>  
>  
> On 01/02/2022 11:22, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I have a few probes in my house(s) and practice and I wonder whether it
> is possible to measure the uptime (and speed) of all or some of them on
> a more or less continuous basis, and if so how one would go about it.
>  
> Total amateur that I am I would appreciate pointers to where I can read
> that up, as it surely must have been done before...
>  
> I don't think that's practical to measure speed on a continious basis.
>  
> The rationale (although I could be wrong) is that as far as I know the only 
> way to reliably measure the throughput of a link is to saturate it.
>  
> kind regards,
>  
> Ray
>  
>  
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