[AusNOG] squid peering mesh

[Julien Goodwin]

On 01/02/11 15:28, Nathan Ridge wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any current existence of a squid peering 
> mesh over pipe ix? or if in fact this would be a breach of pipe T&C in 
> any way?
> 
> Would be great to peer with some other squid boxes, save on some www on 
> our wan links and improve speed to our customers.

We run squid clusters of up to a few hundred megabits, and have mostly
stopped even bothering to peer with boxes in the same cluster (same
rack, same switch, etc). The latency hit just isn't worth it these days
given how little is cachable.