Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:13:15 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@stox.sa.enteract.com> To: Wim Livens <wim@livens.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network diagrams Message-ID: <20020905121115.G17573-100000@stox.sa.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20020905145940.GA87075@krijt.livens.net>
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tkined, which is part of the scotty package in /usr/ports/net might be what you are looking for. On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Wim Livens wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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