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For transit I would want to know the path I'm taking up to the point the supplier has redundancy From there the worst that can happen generally is that the pac
by erincandescent 2y ago
For transit I would want to know the path I'm taking up to the point the supplier has redundancy
From there the worst that can happen generally is that the packets spiral the wrong way around the continent
- vitus 2y ago> the wrong way around the continent I see you haven't met Google's production backbone network(s)... We intentionally didn't connect the Middle East and India (due to a combination of geopolitics and concerns around routing instability), so any traffic between the two would go the long way around the world, incurring a 200+ ms RTT penalty. (There was a ThousandEyes report back in 2018 that gave us a black eye. See pages 20-22 of https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG75/1909/20190218_Kesavan_Comparing_The_Network_v1.pdf https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG75/1909/...) Agreed entirely on your point that if you're buying multiple redundant links, you're responsible for making sure that they're actually relying on different underlying fiber spans.