[89482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network graphics tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wil Schultz)
Tue Mar 21 21:32:18 2006
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:31:40 -0800
From: Wil Schultz <wschultz@wilcomm.net>
To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <p06230900c04641f5bd3f@[192.168.0.2]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
KDE has a "Visio-like" tool called kivio
It was pretty much useless last I looked, but looks like it has some
potential. Think I heard that you would be able to use the visio format
at some point too, probably not yet though.
http://www.koffice.org/kivio/
I've used dia a bit, seems reasonable.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
-Wil
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> Much of the enterprise market seems wedded to Visio as their network
> graphics tool, which locks them into Windows. Personally, I hate both
> little pictures of equipment and Cisco hockey-puck icons; I much
> prefer things like rectangles saying "7507 STL-1" or "M160 NYC-3".
>
> Assuming you use *NIX platforms (including BSD under Mac OS X), what
> are your preferred tools for network drawings, both for internal and
> external use? I'd hate to be driven to Windows only because I need
> Visio.
>
>
