Peering Latency

Thu Jul 3 16:52:29 UTC 2014

On Jul 3, 2014 9:47 AM, "Sam Norris" <Sam at sandiegobroadband.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all - new to the list but not to the community...
>
> Wondering if this is typical when there is too small of a pipe between
peering
> arrangements:
>
> From Level3 to Time Warner
>
>      ADDRESS                                    STATUS
>    2    4.69.133.206 4ms 4ms 4ms
>    3    4.69.153.222 9ms 4ms 4ms
>    4     4.69.158.78 8ms 4ms 4ms  (L3)
>    5    66.109.9.121 28ms 53ms 29ms   (TWC)   <------
>    6    107.14.19.87 30ms 28ms 28ms
>    7    66.109.6.213 27ms 28ms 28ms
>    8      72.129.1.1 32ms 32ms 32ms
>    9      72.129.1.7 27ms 26ms 25ms
>   10   67.52.158.145 28ms 29ms 31ms
>
> From TWC to Level3
>
>  # ADDRESS                                 RT1   RT2   RT3   STATUS
>
> 2 24.43.183.34                            5ms   5ms   6ms
>  3 72.129.1.14                             8ms   8ms   8ms
>
>  4 72.129.1.2                              6ms   8ms   8ms
>
>  5 107.14.19.30                            7ms   8ms   8ms
>
>  6 66.109.6.4                              8ms   8ms   8ms
>
>  7 107.14.19.86                            5ms   5ms   5ms
>
>  8 66.109.9.122                            34ms  33ms  31ms  (TWC)
 <------
>
>  9 4.69.158.65                             31ms  30ms  29ms  (L3)
> 10 4.69.153.221                            33ms  33ms  34ms
> 11 4.69.133.205                            32ms  32ms  31ms
>
>
> I am showing, typically at night, a 20-40ms jump when hopping from Level3
to
> Time Warner and back in Tustin, CA.  This does not happen when using
Cogent or
> other blended providers bandwidth.   I believe they are probably stuffing
too
> many bits thru the peering there and wondering whats the best way to
prove to
> them both (we pay for both) that they need to fix it.
>
> During non-peak traffic times these look normal (sub 10s).
>
> Sam
>

This latency usually means a change in the return path as you cross an AS
boundry.

The first AS may have a local peering for the best return path while the
2nd AS on the return path has to go to a different region to take the bgp
best path