RE: Network diagram software

["(nanog) Brian Battle" <nanog () confluence com>]

Graphviz will do this. (www.graphviz.org)

The basic (dot) syntax for what you describe below is:

digraph G {
        R1 -> VLAN100;
        R2 -> R1;
        SW1 -> VLAN100;
        SW2 -> R2;
        H1 -> SW1;
        H2 -> SW1;
        H3 -> SW2;
        H4 -> SW2;
}


It'll output a GIF flowchart-style diagram with the nodes connected as
described above.
It's also good for visualizing BGP AS paths .


-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Vandegrift [mailto:ross () kallisti us] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:42 AM
To: Mathias Wolkert
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Network diagram software

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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