[127308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: List of a useful tools for network architects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jens Link)
Mon Jun 21 16:21:01 2010
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:18:54 +0200
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinBh73lXPiO6hC-p5Srw8C7N1HBGsodkbh6oquk@mail.gmail.com>
(Pavel Dimow's message of "Mon\, 21 Jun 2010 22\:04\:17 +0200")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Pavel Dimow <paveldimow@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering what tools you consider most valuable when designing big
> network from scratch or perform a migration?
White board and a digital camera to document the drawings. Pen and paper
are also a very important tool.
> For example I would like to know is there a tool that will perform
> basic sanity checks like network equipment without redundant link or
> without link at all...
Well there is my head and a couple of years experience. ;-)
> I know that the one who design a network have to consider all this
> issues but some automatic check will save some time for sure...
Discuss your design with others. There is always more than one way to
design a network.
Jens
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