Atlas RIPE probe
At the ENOG-4 conference, my attention was attracted by a table on which were boxes with a RIPE NCC sticker, an RJ-45 port and a USB tail. Like these ones:
I was not aware of what it is and why it is needed, so I approached it and asked. It turned out that this is an Atlas RIPE network probe that you can take with you by registering at atlas.ripe.net . “We must take!”, I thought. After all, you can not get past such a cute little iron.
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At home, I started using the device, sticking it, according to the instructions, with a USB cable into the router so that it was powered, and in the RJ-45 patchcord to the switch:
The probe almost immediately flashed merrily with lights, showing that there is a link and packages go. What the probe actually does:
The probe itself receives the settings via DHCP, does not have an interface, open ports, and nmap does not know anything worthwhile about it (I changed the MAC address):
The interface is on the website atlas.ripe.net/atlas/myprobes.html . There you can see the status of his probe and the graphics that he drew:
In addition to statistics on your own connection, you can create requests to pings for others (and some other operations) for the required hosts, selecting the probes of others by the criterion (for example, a country). This, of course, is not free, RIPE credits are being spent, which are earned by uptime and participation in other people's requests (for more information, see here: atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm#the-credit-system ).
I did not disassemble the probe, as this would damage the beautiful stickers, the photos of the disassembled can be easily found on the net. Here's an album on the flickr on the subject: www.flickr.com/photos/hellercom/6854396415/in/photostream .
That's all!
UPDATE:
Habraeffekt in action!
I was not aware of what it is and why it is needed, so I approached it and asked. It turned out that this is an Atlas RIPE network probe that you can take with you by registering at atlas.ripe.net . “We must take!”, I thought. After all, you can not get past such a cute little iron.
')
At home, I started using the device, sticking it, according to the instructions, with a USB cable into the router so that it was powered, and in the RJ-45 patchcord to the switch:
The probe almost immediately flashed merrily with lights, showing that there is a link and packages go. What the probe actually does:
- Ping the first two hops he sees. In my case, this is my router and ISP router;
- Ping root DNS'ov;
- Performs pings on assignment
in the name of the moonfor the benefit of society and the owner;
The probe itself receives the settings via DHCP, does not have an interface, open ports, and nmap does not know anything worthwhile about it (I changed the MAC address):
[root@storage ~]# ping 192.168.2.236 PING 192.168.2.236 (192.168.2.236) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.2.236: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.992 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.236: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.742 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.236: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.736 ms ^C --- 192.168.2.236 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.736/0.823/0.992/0.121 ms [root@storage ~]# nmap -O 192.168.2.236 Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-10-25 20:47 MSK Nmap scan report for 192.168.2.236 Host is up (0.0022s latency). All 1000 scanned ports on 192.168.2.236 are closed MAC Address: 11:11:11:11:11:11 (Lantronix) Too many fingerprints match this host to give specific OS details Network Distance: 1 hop OS detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3.40 seconds [root@storage ~]# The interface is on the website atlas.ripe.net/atlas/myprobes.html . There you can see the status of his probe and the graphics that he drew:
In addition to statistics on your own connection, you can create requests to pings for others (and some other operations) for the required hosts, selecting the probes of others by the criterion (for example, a country). This, of course, is not free, RIPE credits are being spent, which are earned by uptime and participation in other people's requests (for more information, see here: atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm#the-credit-system ).
I did not disassemble the probe, as this would damage the beautiful stickers, the photos of the disassembled can be easily found on the net. Here's an album on the flickr on the subject: www.flickr.com/photos/hellercom/6854396415/in/photostream .
That's all!
UPDATE:
Habraeffekt in action!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/156155/
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