[nylug-talk] Any open source network design tools?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:24:16PM -0400, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, R. Mariotti wrote:
> 
> > As a systems analyst/designer/developer with limited network design
> > knowledge I could use a software "tool" to assist with designing my new
> > "enterprise" network.
> visio or dia
> > 
> > Is anyone aware of an inexpensive (i.e.: free/oss) software tools that
> > will ask the appropriate questions and from the answer arrive at a
> > reasonable design?
> brain or a consultant.
> 

Yeah.

Network design only bears a passing relationship to anything resulting
in sanity. As a network grows, every version of every device,
firmware, switch OS, and protocol involved gets multiplied by the
number of business decisions involved, and creates a bunch of known
and potentially unknown variables that make experience really
important.

Oh, and as part of your design mandate equipment that works with
something like RANCID.  That'll help you manage your configurations
across all of your devices. Otherwise you'll never make it out alive.

http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/

-Peter

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