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Re: Network diagram software

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary E. Miller)
Wed Feb 11 18:22:00 2009

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:21:37 -0800 (PST)
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20090212101541.rrwh086q884g8w4w@web1.nswh.com.au>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

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Yo All!

Quoting Mathias Wolkert <mathias.wolkert@gmail.com>:

> I'd like to know what software people are using to document networks.
> Visio is obvious but feels like a straight jacket to me.
> I liked netviz but it seems owned by CA and unsupported nowadays.

I am surprised no one has mentioned the Draw program in Open Office.
It has smart connectors like Vizio. It runs on WinXX, OS X, Linux, etc.,
and it is free.  It uses SVG so you can even generate files with any
language you are handy with.  The main problem is the very few templates.

RGDS
GARY
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