[89484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network graphics tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue Mar 21 22:01:04 2006
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:00:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p06230900c04641f5bd3f@[192.168.0.2]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, 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.
Omnigraffle!
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
-Bill
