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OONI Probe network measurement tool for detecting internet censorship
https://ooni.org/install
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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spec: df-000-base: add ethernet network type #1647

Open anadahz opened 5 years ago

anadahz commented 5 years ago

With the probe_decktop and probe_cli clients we are going to get a number of OONI reports from devices that are connected via ethernet.

It may be necessary to add an ethernet network_type if we want to tag these measurements correctly.

hellais commented 5 years ago

We don't support any type of network type detection on desktop as it's something that is very operating system specific.

I would say that the usefulness of the network_type is mostly to differentiate a mobile network from a fixed line network, so I would advocate for keeping the current wifi, mobile separation and just set it to always being wifi when used on desktop or not setting it at all.

I am not sure of the usefulness of knowing if it's ethernet vs wifi.

anadahz commented 5 years ago

I am not sure of the usefulness of knowing if it's ethernet vs wifi.

@bassosimone do you find an ethernet network_type useful?

bassosimone commented 5 years ago

It's quite useful for performance tests post-processing, but I also don't know how to gather this information easily. This looks like "priority/low", "effort/L", "research", to me.