Building the Perfect DIY RIPE Atlas Hardware Probe

10 years ago, my friend sent me a RIPE Atlas Probe to be plugged into my home network in India for contributing to an open worldwide internet diagnostics measuring network. Other than a USB hardware failure because of which I had to replace the USB stick, the probe has been working perfectly all this time. It is simple enough that it is simply plug and play and I don’t need to bother about any updates and software issues, which is perfect because I can only make it to my home in India every few years and my family isn’t technically savvy to handle issues around the probe. It also acts as a superb uptime monitor for your internet. RIPE Atlas Hardware Probe chugging along for the last 10 years Ever since then I have had multiple attempts at hosting probes in software. However for some reason or the other they end up getting abandoned after a few years. Sometimes because of hardware failure, like the one that I was hosting on my Raspberry Pi or simply that I migrated my software stack at…