General Questions

Hi,

many times happen that users on this forum describe the topology of their network to ask some question to the comunity.

This description is often "complicated" because need to be read twice or more to understain what it is exactly.

My question is:

Is it possible to have an on-line grafic tool, directly available on the forum, to allow people to better describe their network ?
Or it's better to draw their network with some personal tool ( visio ? ) and than post it in PDF ?

Regards

Hi,

I also thoguth about that some times... maybe does somebody know a online tool, with which you can generate a pic, which can be linked here or something? I have never seen something like that, but mabye someone else?

Cheers,
Esra

You can do basic diagrams in google docs and share them or save as image or pdf ....

You may want to check that you don't expose your email address when sharing if you care about it.

Thank brushedmoss, I understood that my email was already hidden.
The checkbox in my profile, is checked ( Hide email address from public? ).

How can I do that ? Should I create another user and see the differences in configurations ?

I mean in google docs. You will see various options there when sharing a doc.

I understood that my email address is exposed in m0n0wall forum, not in google docs.
Sorry for missunderstanding.

Use text with significant entities, relations and arguments.
Fictive example:

      (internetz)
          WAN eth0;
             |
             | cat5e straight;
             |
          WAN eth1; static 89.205.25.230/24;
       [router-x] gw 89.205.25.1; WAN NAT 192.168.0.1/24; DNS1 89.205.127.77;
           LAN eth0; static 192.168.0.1/24; DHCP-Server 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.254;
             |
             | cat5e cross;
             |
           LAN eth0; DHCP 192.168.0.2/24;
           [PC] gw 192.168.0.1; DNS1 89.205.127.77;

Back in the day we used to use ASCII art to produce network diagrams. It was a lot of work and you never knew what it would look like to someone else if they didn't have the right font in their editor/viewer.

Of course now "there is an app for that." I've never tried it, but it reads like it is worth a look.


http://www.networknotepad.com/index.htm

hi fredg,

thanks for the link. looks nice, but it's not an online tool. That would be really nice. Does it really not exist?
As well thx for the google doc's idea. Will try it.

Seems to be some. Some are not free though.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1497&bih=844&q=on+line+network+diagram+maker&btnG=Google+Search#hl=en&safe=off&biw=1497&bih=844&&sa=X&ei=DHtYTcbBJtSWtweX1uXYDA&ved=0CCQQvwUoAQ&q=online+network+diagram+maker&spell=1&fp=92188ee12107320c

is it really that difficult to open paint and attach a simple PNG image to a photo sharing site like tinypic?

Ok, sorry to be the beginner of this mess.

I understood this issue is something important.
Can I ask to the board, to implement something on.line or choose one ""platform"" for everibody.

One platform for all could help because everibody use the same tool and everibody could receive some help from the neighbouring in drawing or what ever.