On Feb 11, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
I'd like to put a second request. I often want to very quickly mock-up a diagram that I'm going to use for myself or for internal purposes.
Is there any application that takes some kind of *simple* description and produces a (possibly not so beautiful) picture? For example, I might say something like:
Router(rtr1) connects to vlan 100 Router(rtr2) connects to Router(rtr1) via T1 switch(sw1) connects to vlan100 switch(sw2) connects to Router(rtr2) A few hosts connect to Switch(sw1) A few hosts connect to Switch(sw2)
The aforementioned graphviz program "dot" (and friends) will do exactly this. http://www.graphviz.org/ There's a command-line version and a spiffy GUI version for the mac. It's a great way to go. It may be unsurprising that it was an at&t project. -Dave