Re: Network diagram software

[Ross Vandegrift <ross () kallisti us>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:06:09PM +0100, Mathias Wolkert wrote:
> I'd like to know what software people are using to document networks.
> Visio is obvious but feels like a straight jacket to me.
> I liked netviz but it seems owned by CA and unsupported nowadays.
>
> What do you use?

I'd like to put a second request.  I often want to very quickly
mock-up a diagram that I'm going to use for myself or for internal
purposes.

Is there any application that takes some kind of *simple* description
and produces a (possibly not so beautiful) picture?  For example, I
might say something like:

        Router(rtr1) connects to vlan 100
        Router(rtr2) connects to Router(rtr1) via T1
        switch(sw1) connects to vlan100
        switch(sw2) connects to Router(rtr2)
        A few hosts connect to Switch(sw1)
        A few hosts connect to Switch(sw2)

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Ross Vandegrift
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