From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 5 8:32: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C91837B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.yazzy.org (mail.wrs.no [80.232.16.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A31343E6A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:31:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yazzy@yazzy.org) Received: from yazzy.org (saruman.wrs [192.168.64.6]) by mail.yazzy.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8E5D62F7A31 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:28:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.wrs.no ([80.232.16.66]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user yazzy.yazzy.org) by www.yazzy.org with HTTP; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <61673.80.232.16.66.1031239858.squirrel@www.yazzy.org> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Network diagrams From: "Marcin Jessa" To: Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: yazzy@yazzy.org X-Mailer: h4x0r mail yazzy.org (version 1337) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Maybe netsaint is something you're looking for? http://www.netsaint.org/ Wim Livens said: > > I'm looking for a way to automatically generate a network diagram image > showing IP addresses, hostnames and interface names. > > We're running an ISP access network (about 20 nodes) and I don't want > to update visio drawings manually while all topology info is in a > database. Besides that, I would like to generate a similar drawing for > the customer's access link and their router on a web portal. I could > probably do the latter with GD.pm, but I feel a bit like > reinventing the wheel and rather have a more generic solution. > > The database contains a table like this: > > IPaddr, hostname, interface, network > > I understand I will need to supply some hints for the layout > generation, like a rank or coordinates for each node. > > I looked at caida.org, but these are all for large backbone networks. > > I've also been playing with dot and neato by generating the input file > from our database, but I can't get it to produce a decent layout, the > "ranking" feature of dot seems too limited. W.r.t. neato, being an > access network, there is a clear hierarchy in the nodes, so a > spring-model graph layout is not suited either. > > Any ideas ? > > thanks and hoping it was not too far off-topic, > > Wim. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Marcin M. Jessa Software developer/System Administrator Wireless Reading Systems ASA Skreddervn 9 N-1537 Moss Norway http://www.wrs.no Phone: +47 69 27 96 88 Cellular: +47 988 505 44 ----------- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. -- Marcin M. Jessa Software developer/System Administrator Wireless Reading Systems ASA Skreddervn 9 N-1537 Moss Norway http://www.wrs.no Phone: +47 69 27 96 88 Cellular: +47 988 505 44 ----------- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message