Re: Google peering in LAX

[Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net>]

----- On Mar 2, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Seth Mattinen sethm () 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