[127326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: List of a useful tools for network architects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Jun 22 00:53:07 2010
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:52:37 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Pavel Dimow <paveldimow@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B4D5E38C-57F5-4A95-A0F0-229AC8459AB0@bogus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 06/21/2010 08:46 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> There was a lightning talk on Netdot at Nanog 48 I'd take a look at the presentation and the the website. It's quite useful from the documentation and discovery standpoint
meh, it was nanog 49, and the link is:
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/presentations/Tuesday/Vicente-netdot-presentation-nanog49.pdf
https://netdot.uoregon.edu/trac/
> After the initial whit board I generally sit down and document what we're going to build then we build a transition plan the covers the activities based on the docs and move on from there.
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> Joel's iPad
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> On Jun 21, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Pavel Dimow <paveldimow@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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...."
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>> The point is, I am not looking for a program that will design the
>> network instead of me, just a little sanity check.
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>> I agree that head, whiteboard, marker, sharp pencil :) are very
>> valuable but those were on my list anyway :)
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>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Jens Link <lists@quux.de> wrote:
>>> Pavel Dimow <paveldimow@gmail.com> writes:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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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