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Re: Network diagram software

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hallgren)
Wed Feb 11 17:56:50 2009

From: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
To: mvh@hosteurope.de
In-Reply-To: <1234392700.7457.10.camel@home>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:56:25 +0100
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Le mercredi 11 f=C3=A9vrier 2009 =C3=A0 23:51 +0100, Michael Hallgren a =C3=
=A9crit :
> 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.
> > >=20
> > > ...except I've not found any good networking/systems stencils for
> > > omnigraffle (even on graffletopia).  I tried to import the visio ones=
 in 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 i=
s
> > 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.
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> 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 :)

If you're not used to this kind of document authoring, I believe TiKz is
your best/first friend.

mh

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> Cheers,
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> mh
> =20
> >=20
> > Regards,
> >=20
> > .m
> >=20
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michael hallgren, mh2198-ripe

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