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Re: Network diagram software

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hallgren)
Wed Feb 11 17:51:59 2009

From: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
To: mvh@hosteurope.de
In-Reply-To: <4993527E.1080207@hosteurope.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:51:40 +0100
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Le mercredi 11 f=C3=A9vrier 2009 =C3=A0 23:34 +0100, Malte von dem Hagen a =
=C3=A9crit :
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> Am 11.02.2009 21:50 Uhr, Craig Holland schrieb:
> > Mathias Wolkert wrote:
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> Did he?
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> >>>> OmniGraffle is the better Visio.
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> > ...except I've not found any good networking/systems stencils for
> > omnigraffle (even on graffletopia).  I tried to import the visio ones i=
n 5.0
> > but that didn't work too well.  Someone out there have something for
> > omnigraffle that rivals the visio network stencils?
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> Depends on the target audience, but for documentation purposes, there is
> obviously no need for shiny, eyecandy stencils but only for
> distinguishable figures. Use circles for routers, rectangles for
> switches and so on. There are enough geometric stencils available.

Or ;)... Unless that you need runtime input, parse your configuration
file repository, and build quite nice looking documents using TeX (plus,
if you fancy nice graphics, pstricks, metapost, or pgf/TiKz). That's
easy with a small few lines of perl (or your parsing language of
choice). If you need run-time data, simply script it into the above
mentioned "engine." The engineering way of lazily producing "marketing=20
visual quality" documents... IMHO :)

Cheers,

mh
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> Regards,
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> .m
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michael hallgren, mh2198-ripe

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