[127310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: List of a useful tools for network architects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pavel Dimow)
Mon Jun 21 17:21:38 2010
In-Reply-To: <871vc0gmvl.fsf@oban.berlin.quux.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:20:56 +0200
From: Pavel Dimow <paveldimow@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
And how do you feel when client tell you that you don't have a
connection from SW-476 to SW-145?
"Well you see, there are plenty of boxes out there (couple hundreds)
you don't expect that everything must be perfect right? Anyhow I was
very tired that day...."
The point is, I am not looking for a program that will design the
network instead of me, just a little sanity check.
I agree that head, whiteboard, marker, sharp pencil :) are very
valuable but those were on my list anyway :)
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Jens Link <lists@quux.de> wrote:
> 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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