Google peering in LAX

Mon Mar 2 23:30:04 UTC 2020

On 3/2/20 3:09 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 
> Your routers, your decision.
> 
> But how much traffic are you sending TO Google? Most people get the vast 
> majority of traffic FROM Google. They send you videos, you send them 
> ACKs. Does it matter where the ACKs go?

A customer is complaining that data they're sending is going over a 
higher latency (longer) path. I don't know what they're doing I don't 
generally ask why, but they claim it's a problem for whatever they're 
doing and I don't have a reason to doubt them. It's not youtube.

I agree that it's an undesirable long term solution but if filtering 
select transit-only /24's shifts the path to peering and reduces 
latency, if the customer is happy then I'm happy and if/when Google 
starts accepting peering requests again I'll revisit it.