RIPE Atlas
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If you've never heard of the Atlas project, here is a link: https://atlas.ripe.net/.
Here is some information:
With your help, the RIPE NCC is building the largest Internet measurement network ever made. RIPE Atlas employs a global network of probes that measure Internet connectivity and reachability, providing an unprecedented understanding of the state of the Internet in real time.
The project is looking for people to host probes that will help to fill in gaps in the coverage. I believe they prefer dual-stack, but it probably depends on the situation. I got one of the probes a few weeks ago and it's interesting to see the information it's providing to the project. The probe is very small. I comes with a USB power supply, but I'm powering my probe with a USB port on one of my servers. If you're interested in contributing, it's very easy to apply for a probe.
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@bimmerdriver said in RIPE Atlas:
If you've never heard of the Atlas project, here is a link: https://atlas.ripe.net/.
Here is some information:
With your help, the RIPE NCC is building the largest Internet measurement network ever made. RIPE Atlas employs a global network of probes that measure Internet connectivity and reachability, providing an unprecedented understanding of the state of the Internet in real time.
The project is looking for people to host probes that will help to fill in gaps in the coverage. I believe they prefer dual-stack, but it probably depends on the situation. I got one of the probes a few weeks ago and it's interesting to see the information it's providing to the project. The probe is very small. I comes with a USB power supply, but I'm powering my probe with a USB port on one of my servers. If you're interested in contributing, it's very easy to apply for a probe.
As the probes are currently not in stock they offer a software probe application as well.
https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/software-probe/
Anyone managed to get this operational on a pfSense machine?
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@eirikrcoquere said in RIPE Atlas:
Anyone managed to get this operational on a pfSense machine?
I don't see any freebsd version listed on their site.. While they have link to the source code, so it should be possible to compile for freebsd. Wouldn't it better to just run this on something behind your pfsense.. On a vm or docker even - they do list a docker version to download.
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@johnpoz said in RIPE Atlas:
@eirikrcoquere said in RIPE Atlas:
Anyone managed to get this operational on a pfSense machine?
I don't see any freebsd version listed on their site.. While they have link to the source code, so it should be possible to compile for freebsd. Wouldn't it better to just run this on something behind your pfsense.. On a vm or docker even - they do list a docker version to download.
Yeah noticed that as well. I think I am just going to wait for the hardware device to arrive.
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@eirikrcoquere even if they had a freebsd package - not sure I would install on pfsense, unless it was vetted by pfsense to not cause any problems.
Installing packages that are not part of the pfsense repository would/could come with some risk of causing an issue.
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Could probably run it in bhyve in pfSense.... if you really wanted to.
Fun project perhaps. Looks like it runs in OpenWRT so pretty small footprint.
Edit: In fact it's available as a package for OpenWRT so probably trivial.Steve
