[TriLUG] (Favorite) network diagramming tool?

Jeff Bollinger jeff01 at email.unc.edu
Wed Oct 17 07:52:16 EDT 2001


I've had some success with cheops as well.

Jeff

Jon Carnes wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 October 2001 21:05, you wrote:
> > Dr. Kowalski,
> >
> > > Do you have any suggestions for (or what's your favorite) network
> > > diagramming tool?
> >
>
> > I've got Visio Technical and find it to be "the tool" to use when I
> > document network infrastructures or propose changes.  It will also export
> > diagrams to JPG format so when you send out diagrams the recipients don't
> > need to have Visio or any other proprietary software to read the
> > diagrams.
> >
> > There are some open source projects trying to bring this sort of
> > functionality to Linux but everything I've seen is pretty early along in
> > development and not conducive to getting the job done yet.
> >
> I find that "dia" works just fine for me - but you know... nothing beats a
> good ASCII diagram for shuttling specs around via email.  For fancy
> presentations, I'll create a jpg using PaintShop Pro.
>
> Jon
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