Re: [atlas] USB drive more harmful than helpful?

2016-05-23 Thread Wilfried Woeber
[...] > Has anyone tested how many writes are going on to the ATLAS thumb > drive? Perhaps with all the failures within a year of start, perhaps > too many writes are taking place? I know that a very small number of probes is not a valid basis for statistics, but there wasn't a USB drive failure

Re: [atlas] VM probes (was Re: Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas)

2015-11-10 Thread Wilfried Woeber
On 2015-11-10 11:18, Stephan Wolf wrote: > ANCHOR as an VM would really make sense. > What do you think about this ? I think this would really be a BAD idea! The anchors are meant to be more capable and more stable than the candy probes. Messing around with that concept should not be done,

Re: [atlas] Dead probes - slightly OT

2015-10-28 Thread Wilfried Woeber
So, just out of curiosity... On 2015-10-23 11:54, Philip Homburg wrote: >[...] > What normally cures it is to connect the probe to power and network > without the USB stick, wait for about 10 minutes and then insert the USB > stick. This seems to imply that the probes can bootstrap (off the

Re: [atlas] Public vs. Non-Public Probes

2015-10-22 Thread Wilfried Woeber
Thanks, Vesna and Team, for digging up the references! Wifried (from ICANN54@Dublin)