RIPE Atlas Probes

AfNOG / Lusaka 2013.06.14

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>

Issues & Questions to atlas@ripe.net RIPE Atlas 101 1

Atlas Probe? What’s That?

A Measurement Device

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Used to be Tiny

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USB Power

Ethernet

Bigger & Cheaper

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More for Your Money? J

That’s Nice

But What Does it

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Measurements!!

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Example Pings

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3,291 Probes

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And You Can See Measurements From Them All!

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You Can Even Conduct Your Own Experiments on Your and Other People’s Probes

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Participation and Benefits Anyone can become a RIPE Atlas probe host

Major personal and operational benefit: See your network from the outside!

Have at your fingertips >3,000 external vantage points

to do pings & traceroutes towards your network

Built-in measurements available to everyone Maps, data from public probes, API to download raw data

But, if you want to ping home from around the

Internet, then you have to have registered a

probe yourself RIPE Atlas 101 12

Resources •  Powered by USB (500mA or greater) •  Internet connectivity via Ethernet •  It will attempt to configure itself

with DHCP •  Uses 4-6 Kbps of bandwidth

(< 2GB/month) •  Needs to be able to do: DHCP, DNS,

HTTP(S), and ICMP at a minimum RIPE Atlas 101 13

Lots of Ways to Plug In

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Plug It In!

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Be On The Green Line

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Please Be Here

As Percentage

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Please Be Here

Set-Up Instructions

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I Can Give You a Probe You Have to Register Your EMail with Me

Plug it In

Then Register at RIPE

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Register at RIPE

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And Send in a Picture!

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