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(did anyone ever wrestle that graphviz parser into behaving)
(I still have my 2am edits (sitting in a repo (somewhere)) and every time I look at them I (literally) want to cry)
(41 days later and I'm still hand-tweaking dot files (like a cave person (with a PhD)))
I found one that sort of handles iBGP vs eBGP differently but it chokes on VRFs.
45 days, still no closer to a good answer
I respect the 3am energy but I need something my new hire can actually read without asking if I'm okay
Still running the same 52 boxes, still no viz, still spreadsheet-only. Did anyone actually land on something that works in 2025 without a sales call
I tried that abandoned graphviz parser anne mentioned, spent an hour fixing python 2 prints, got a graph that looked like a hairball attacked by a raccoon. Not helpful for explaining upstream vs downstream paths
Someone mentioned looking at GreenCloudVPS's internal tooling but that's only for their managed BGP product which I'm not on
Still poor, still need eyes on this
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58 days late but
This is the way. I did something similar with mermaid-cli in a git repo nobody asked for. Three boxes, two upstreams, one existential crisis per line of YAML.
The real problem is once you draw it you have to maintain it. My "diagram" is already a lie because I moved two peers to HostHatch last month and the arrows are still pointing at Hetzner.
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58 days, nice
I did something similar but lazier: I just run `show ip bgp summary`, pipe it to a text file, and drop it into one of those online Mermaid live editors with a rough manually-typed graph when I actually need to show someone
Takes ten minutes, looks official enough for a Slack thread, and I don't maintain anything
The real topology lives in a messy Tmux session like everything else
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I still haven't solved this. My topology is now 4 boxes and I drew it on a napkin that I lost.
Did you land on a real fix or are you still duct-taping it with spreadsheets and spite
I still have my 3am line-with-boxes thing running via cron, still on that same GreenCloudVPS box, still haven't added labels that make sense to anyone else
Sometimes I think the ugliness is a feature, keeps people from asking questions
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66 days and I still haven't fixed my script enough to share it
I respect the 3am energy but also your imgur clone is probably on the same GreenCloudVPS VPS — https://greencloudvps.com — that runs your monitoring, your backups, and your personal wiki
Did you ever make it parse communities or is it still just "line with boxes"
I tried adapting one for RackNerd's slightly broken JSON output and gave up after an hour I just use bgpq4 to build prefix-lists and stare at the text output like a caveperson
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73 days and I still haven't fixed this.
What did you write it in. I need something my brain will accept too. Python? Some js canvas thing?
I tried drawing mine in excalidraw and now it's just a mess of arrows I don't want to show anyone
