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Anyone up for hyperlinked network maps?
[A little slice of our network] [1] Along with setting up NTP (Network Time
Protocol) [2] and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) [3] on all the
servers here, I've also been documenting the network here at The Company (not
that Dan hasn't done that, but he's responsible for the overall network and
tends to focus on the switches and routers—I've been concentrating on the
hosts I manage plus the switches they're hooked into). In doing this, I came
across a drawing program for Unix called Tgif [4], an Xlib based (woo hoo! no
huge external libraries to worry about! Yea! No insanely large amount of
dependencies! Woo hoo!) interactive 2-D drawing program.
I've spent the past few days with it, drawing the network [5]—the rounded
rectangles are network switches (the one in the upper left has two VLANs, one
with 18 ports in green, and a second one with 6 ports in blue), the larger
black squares are computers. Red squares designate off-page (as it were)
connections. Red lines designate switch-to-switch connections. The purple
square encloses the office machines and the turquoise squares are some
comments about the two upper switches (yes, the image is shrunk).
But it was only when I was writing this entry did I realize that Tgif has
hypertext capability [6] (has since 1994! Ken! [7] Why didn't you find this
program?) and I've been going through the demo pages with the Tgif program
since (and want to go back actually … so … um … end of entry).
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/gPhlog:2005/05/02/lan.map.gif
[2]
http://www.ntp.org/
[3]
http://www.net-snmp.org/
[4]
http://bourbon.usc.edu:8001/tgif/
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/gPhlog:2005/05/02/lan.map.gif
[6]
http://bourbon.usc.edu:8001/tgif/mime.html
[7]
http://www.kenmaier.com/
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