Network Diagram
I forget who, but a user on the Neowin.net Forums gave me an idea - to create a fancy diagram of my LAN, showing all the switches, routers and links between them.
So here is the outcome:
I also created a future diagram for how the Network will probably be like after I move rooms later this month:
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October 11th, 2006 at 4:45 pm (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8 on Ubuntu Linux
Hey, I love these diagrams. Last time I drew a network diagram, I was using Dia and it ended up looking like butt.
What do you use to draw these? Cause they look really nice!
October 11th, 2006 at 7:36 pm (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Windows XP
I used Microsoft Visio 2003 - On startup there’s a wizard-type thing of the various types of diagrams you can create; I just picked the Network Diagram one
October 13th, 2006 at 8:53 pm (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Fedora Linux
Bah using a Microsoft product, tsk tsk :P
October 13th, 2006 at 9:04 pm (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Windows XP
Well I get Visio free from my university, so why not try it out? :P
Anyway, there are no open-source/free alternatives that I know of.
November 18th, 2006 at 5:51 am (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Mac OS X
Holy shit. No wonder you never tell anyone where you live - you’d get robbed within a day! LOL.
November 20th, 2006 at 6:08 am (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP
Although Visio does “pretty” diagrams, there not really all that useful for real world purposes because they don’t use standardised pictograms. they’re not all that useful for communicating network structure where it matters (in a business environment)
DIA is an excellent open source tool for creating useful network diagrams:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
November 21st, 2006 at 7:40 pm (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP
They were only supposed to be “pretty” diagrams - If I was going to do one for a whole server rack (or more than one) of course I would use something more standardized, but that wasn’t the point in this case.
Thanks for the link though - I’ll have a look at DIA later
April 6th, 2008 at 7:59 pm (DST)
Opera 9.24 on Linux
I don’t like these “fancy” diagrams as all network component icons might look like the real product case design but do not represent the function of the network component - at least it is not unambigous. So you have to write “router” or “switch” etc additional to the component… so this is just eye candy but not really useful… (sorry, i’m not an english speaker)
April 11th, 2008 at 11:05 pm (DST)
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Windows XP
Visio is lovely, and easily the best diagramming/flowcharting software around. It really annoys me that there are no free alternatives, but that’s just the way it is.
Visio has normal network icons too, but it also has more “executive” pictures. Cisco provide a pack of the icons they use in their own documentation for Visio.