[89492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network graphics tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (neal rauhauser)
Wed Mar 22 01:14:09 2006
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:13:37 -0600
From: neal rauhauser <neal@lists.rauhauser.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p06230900c04641f5bd3f@[192.168.0.2]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Mechanical pencil, a sheet of paper for a straight edge, and a penny
when you want to make a proffesional looking round object. I publish to
Flickr using macro mode on my Fuji Finepix 5100 to make the picture.
No little Cisco hockey puck stencils, but last year when I sketched a
steaming pile o' poo all parties involved understood this to be the
Cisco ICS 7750 we were scheduled to replace.
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.
>
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