[59257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network discovery and mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Sun Jun 22 13:18:07 2003
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 13:16:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306220153160.20865-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Has network discovery and mapping improved for medium-scale wide
> area networks for ISPs (e.g. 1,000 networks, 100,000 network devices)?
> I've found lots of discovery tools, but intelligent mapping/layout still
> seems to be a problem. The usual requirements for SNMP smart discovery,
> interface/subnet mapping, device identification and connecting the right
> symbols with the right lines to all the other symbols.
That's quite a "medium-scale".
Is there a single entity in the world that controls 1,000 networks and
100,000 network devices?
Andy
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