Google peering in LAX

Randy Carpenter rcarpen at network1.net
Mon Mar 2 23:02:42 UTC 2020



----- On Mar 2, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us wrote:

> I suppose that one went over my head.
> 
> To clarify I am the one with peering in LAX and I'm only seeing the big
> aggregates via the Any2 Easy servers. At the moment I can only infer
> that Google announces aggregates to the route servers and maybe one only
> gets the /24's after you turn up a direct neighbor or PNI, but there's
> no way to do that since Google isn't accepting new peering requests and
> steers such requests back to what's available on route servers.
> 
> I suppose what I could do is filter /24's from 15169$ in the absence of
> being able to see if a direct/PNI peering would include them where route
> servers do not.

I would say it would be best to see if you can get a direct peer with Google via the IX. I have done this with some of the ISPs I work with. It was no additional cost since the physical connections are already in place and actually was highly recommended when first turning up the IX circuits.


-Randy



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