[111764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network diagram software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Wed Feb 11 20:30:35 2009
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:30:17 -0800
From: "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark@globalstar.com>
To: <jay@miscreant.org>,<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090212101541.rrwh086q884g8w4w@web1.nswh.com.au>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>>> On 2/11/2009 at 3:15 PM, <jay@miscreant.org> wrote:
> Quoting Mathias Wolkert <mathias.wolkert@gmail.com>:
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>> 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.
>>
>> What do you use?
>>
>> /Tias
>>
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> I know what you mean about the straight jacket, Visio used to almost =20
> drive me to the sanitarium. One day I bit the bullet and RTFM (and a =20
> book) and now I don't find it so frustrating ;)
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> I have in the past used SmartDraw (http://www.smartdraw.com), it's =20
> commercial, but IMHO resonably priced, and I found it quick and easy =20
> to whip up network diagrams with it. It's also pretty good at flow =20
> charts.
Don't touch smartdraw. Spammers.
