RE: Network discovery tools

["Brian Wilson" <Brian.Wilson () sas com>]

The best GPL tool that I've come across in a long while, as far as network discovery goes, would have to be the 
discovery engine inside Netdisco (http://www.netdisco.org).  This tool is fairly Cisco-centric, but Max has put a lot 
of work into a tool for folks who are tired of CiscoWorks not working.

-B

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of sgorman1 () gmu edu
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:13 AM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Network discovery tools



I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good shareware or demo network discovery tool.  I was hoping to find 
something that will show vendor type during node discovery.  I came across a tool called network ferret that did the 
job, but nothing downloadable.

I'm hoping to do some more work on the effects of network diversity, and wanted to do testing on real world networks.  
I figured starting of with GMU would get us going, but if anyone knows of any available datasets with node-link 
topology and vendor type it would be great to play with them.

thanks,

sean