[89487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network graphics tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Burnette)
Tue Mar 21 23:28:53 2006
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:25:58 -0500
From: Andrew Burnette <acb@acb.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p06230900c04641f5bd3f@[192.168.0.2]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
>
http://www.nethack.net/software/netmapr/ is an alternative as well.
I personally use Dia, and it seems fine in both OS types, and exports
various types of files that [OOo/MS-office] can deal with easily.
You can download shapes for a variety of presenters/office/visio/etc
from the cisco website (as well as others).
Cheers,
andy
