Hi Robert,
The existence of software probes is great, but instead (or
besides) of providing packages or source code, why not distribute
a prebuild VM as OVF file?
Advantages:
- The RIPE Atlas team manages the whole OS, like it's doing for
the hardware probes. Thus, updates can be deployed whenever
needed.
- You can even use OpenWRT as VM operatingsystem. This means all
the same premises/conditions as for hardware probes.
- an OVF file is easier to deploy, for the community
- RXTXRPT switch is obsolete
- No more false RXTXRPT data, since the report counts all traffic
of the host, not only the traffic that is generated by the SW
probe application.
Is there an actual reason, why it was decided to let users manage
the software probe installation?
Please consider to distribute a prebuild VM *additionally* to the
existing ways and see what happens. I'm sure, most new users will
choose a prebuild VM.
BR,
Simon
On 19.01.23 12:48, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
That is reasonable; the difference is that we are not in control;
the host OS is. Redhat/Fedora/derivatives as well as
Debian/derivatives have an official solution to this via their
package management services and I believe this is the standard way
(surely with exceptions :-) ) of handling these matters. We are in
the process of adopting these.