Drawing network diagrams?

[Tom Buskey]

FWIW I've used xfig in the past.  It's ASCII based and I've written scripts
to generate the graphics too.  I've actually toggled between xfig & vi to
edit.


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Andy Bair <pab at korelogic.com> wrote:

> I have used Dia quite a bit in the past and I would recommend it for
> diagrams that you build "manually".  If you have some scripting
> knowledge and want to generate your graph in "automatically" you should
> consider graphviz.  It takes some getting used to but can produce
> powerful graphs.  (For example, you could parse ping-sweep data to
> automatically generate a network diagram.)
>
> http://www.graphviz.org/
>
> Andy
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> On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 21:47 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> > I recently did some some network diagrams at work with Dia, but
> > I'm wondering if there are other diagramming tools out there
> > that I should consider.
> >
> > What do you all use? Is there a better tool? Is there a more standard
> > digram-format than Dia's? Is there a specific package of icons
> > that I should get for Dia?
> >
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