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[toxico.livejournal.com]

How many of you (that have access to such things anyway) work for a company with a detailed network diagram? I mean, doesn't this usually consist of a purty-looking cloud representing the Intarw3b with things connected to it, all the way down to your workstations or groups thereof, and all points in-between?

Here are Google's results for the phrase network diagram. While we require IP information, the first example pictured will do quite nicely.

This, on the other hand, is a recreation of what we were sent by a customer. It's not exaggerated in any way - it's THAT bad. The writing is the customer's and it's just as illegible as the MS Paint jumble you see here. Any identifying info has been removed or otherwise altered. I'd show you the actual file we were sent, but for liability reasons I obviously can't.

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[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

You had me at "sysco" router.....

*groans*

Our network diagram is reall pretty - run up in Visio (used to be) or maybe something even newer & spiffier extracted from our monitoring software. I think the top level diagram is tabloid sized, and am fairly sure that each campus has a detail diagram to match. (down to endpoint switches, no workstation maps - would be too ludicrous)

[gremlingirl.livejournal.com]

The only way that could be funnier, is if it were drawn in crayon.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

On construction paper.

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

And signed by "Joe CEO age 32 1/2"

[alphabeter.livejournal.com]

Now what would make you think a CEO would know how to turn on a computer?

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

Wishful thinking.

[rileydag.livejournal.com]

Hanging on the fridge next to the post it note pad labeled (My Inbox).

[xforge.livejournal.com]

That looks like one of those illustrations from my junior-high-school biology text book: "This is the web the spider spun after we gave it the equivalent of two joints of marijuana."

[pantherchild.livejournal.com]

~HAH!

~I often ask people for ASCIIgrams of their networks...heaven only knows what I'd get if I asked for a PICTURE.

~(More times than not, I end up sketching it on my whiteboard and sounding like a real idiot when I keep asking "And you have WHICH NETWORK CARD on the 10.0.0.0/16 network...?"

~Heheh. Sysko. Heheheeeee.~

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

sadly enough, that's still better than i can draw in MS Paint.

I'm left handed, but use the mouse in my right hand.. my left hand mouse skills are even worse than right hand.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"Dear customer -

Thank you for what appears to be a drawing of some kind. However, please note that we requested a network diagram. Good examples of network diagrams can be found here (http://www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com/toplist.php?ut=8). We would suggest that in future, you do not employ artists until after their third birthday."

[jecook]

When I get the new boss, I drew him a nice and pretty visio diagram of the company network.

I think the current one is a bitmap that was done with the shape tools in paint, IIRC.

I also drew a few real nice diagrams for the test lab when I worked at [ISP]. It came out as two E-sized sheets in landscape view. They were teh sexay.

I also put togather a few "as-built" diagrams of some of the sites I was sent to. I <3 visio

[japester.livejournal.com]

for a customer, that's actually not bad. It represents what they want, or at least, what they thing they want :)
it could be worse. they could have said, 'we wants the intarweb thang, and we wants it now!"

at least they *have* a diagram too. Me previous place of employment sort of had one. on the whiteboard in the server room. ie, where it was needed and easily updateable. :P

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

My company doesn't have a detailed network diagram. I cannot even understand the network in my building. We have over 15 subnets in just my building.