shoegoo Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 I am studying for my CCNA, in the middle of my TCS. Anyway I can't seem to find a LAN topology designer for Linux. Our instructors keep telling us to use M$ Visio. Is there anything comparable for Linux? I would prefer not to use the Cisco one either, because it is way too involved for simple designs requiring subnetting and correct addressing before any design is implemented. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 A classical Linux tool for that purpose is "dia" http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ Dia is designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It should be included in whatever distro/version you have. Not related to your question, but with dia2code you can translate dia-UML diagrams into code of different languages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoegoo Posted February 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Thanks so much, Dia is exactly what I am looking for, perhaps now I can convince some of my classmates to use it rather than downloading visio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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