[111723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network diagram software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Andersen)
Wed Feb 11 09:48:52 2009
From: David Andersen <dga@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Ross Vandegrift <ross@kallisti.us>
In-Reply-To: <20090211144206.GA2731@kallisti.us>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:48:24 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Feb 11, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
>
> I'd like to put a second request. I often want to very quickly
> mock-up a diagram that I'm going to use for myself or for internal
> purposes.
>
> Is there any application that takes some kind of *simple* description
> and produces a (possibly not so beautiful) picture? For example, I
> might say something like:
>
> Router(rtr1) connects to vlan 100
> Router(rtr2) connects to Router(rtr1) via T1
> switch(sw1) connects to vlan100
> switch(sw2) connects to Router(rtr2)
> A few hosts connect to Switch(sw1)
> A few hosts connect to Switch(sw2)
The aforementioned graphviz program "dot" (and friends) will do
exactly this.
http://www.graphviz.org/
There's a command-line version and a spiffy GUI version for the mac.
It's a great way to go. It may be unsurprising that it was an at&t
project.
-Dave
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