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I need to see this 3am line with boxes, my brain also accepts lines with boxes
(also 4 days late but who cares (the thread was quiet (we're all busy (or avoiding our topologies))))
Has anyone tried just dumping the RIB into something like Gephi
I did it once with a Quagga box, it was overkill but pretty
Took an hour to render and my laptop sounded like a drone
Never did it again
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Late to this but
I tried the graphviz route once. Spent two hours on node placement before I realized I was just procrastinating on actual config work. The line with boxes approach might be the honest truth of what most of us actually need.
Did you ever clean that up into something reusable or is it still a one-off fever dream
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8 days quiet but this hits home
I did the same thing except it was awk and svg and now I have a cron job that overwrites a file on my HostHatch object storage bucket every hour
My "topology" is currently 4 boxes and it still looks like a subway map drawn by someone who has never ridden a subway
Does anyone actually pay for the enterprise stuff or is it all just 3am scripts in the end
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Still thinking about this thread.
I tried the graphviz route and gave up after my third `sfdp` crash. Might just draw it on paper and take a photo like a caveman.
I have a similar setup at work and my manager keeps asking for "a diagram" like that's a normal thing to produce. I've been drawing boxes in LibreOffice Impress like a caveman. It works until the next time someone adds a session and I have to move everything by hand.
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I tried something similar with graphviz last month and gave up when the edges started crossing over the node labels. Also 17 days later but whatever, this thread is basically my life now.
23 days and nobody mentioned looking glass pages
I have a cron on my GreenCloudVPS box that curls the Contabo and OVHcloud looking glasses every hour, dumps the traceroutes, diff them
After six months you can sort of see the shape in your head without drawing anything
Not visualization exactly but it costs zero and you stop needing the picture
This is the real problem yeah
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Did anyone actually get that graphviz parser working reliably? I found one that choked on VRF names with hyphens and gave up
Also @tallinnying your 3am line-with-boxes tool sounds like exactly my speed, is it somewhere public or too many hardcoded paths
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Did anyone actually get that graphviz script working properly? I found two forks, both choke on IPv6 peers.
Also tallinnying your line-with-boxes thing is weirdly compelling. Is that public anywhere or still 3am spaghetti
