RE: Network-Documentation

["Steve Hudson" <steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au>]

Strange name Mr Default :-)

There are two main sorts of network diagrams, physical and logical. Both of
these tend to use these stds (its from an IEEE spec I think)

Router - Circle
Node - "standing up" rectangle
cable - thin line
Backbone - fat line
Entire WAN/LAN - cloud

Its NOT the same as an electrical spec. Crossed lines are ok - all lines are
TERMINATED so crossings are ignored.


So, to quickly explain the difference twixt physical and logical:

HOST -----------CLIENT x30 (Logical)


CLIENT        CLIENT         CLIENT        CLIENT

CLIENT                 HOST                CLIENT

CLIENT        CLIENT         CLIENT        CLIENT

If all these clients had lines to the host, that is a physical.

Hope this helps - oh yes, try to use cardinal points for connecting. Nodes
should connect via the middle of the top or bottom.




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