[59259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network discovery and mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Crockett)
Sun Jun 22 13:54:16 2003
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:53:44 -0500
From: Jonathan Crockett <jcrockett@midco.net>
To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0306221315330.1067-100000@thunder.xecu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:16:38PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote:
>
> 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?
I am a network engineer for a cable ISP. We have over 50,000 cable modems
and around 65,000 customer devices. We only have 200-250 networks, but
well over 100,000 ip devices.
--
Jonathan Crockett
Network Engineer
Midcontinent Communications
