[HN Gopher] Show HN: Netpen.io Visual editor for Linux network s...
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       Show HN: Netpen.io Visual editor for Linux network scripts
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       Author : ebirger
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-10-21 16:56 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | Tijdreiziger wrote:
       | Constructive criticism: The block diagram becomes unreadable when
       | using the Dark Reader browser extension.
        
       | tarasglek wrote:
       | This is actually pretty cool. Most network configuration tools I
       | know (eg netplan) do not go down to the level of 'clusters'(eg
       | defining how multiple vms would talk to each other in one file)
       | and don't even cover namespaces. I have a similar (hack) at work
       | to configure physical clusters. Would consider switching to
       | something like this mechanism if you supported specifying
       | physical nics. Mine is nowhere as clean as yours.
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       | Main thing that's missing specifying 'machines', nics by mac,
       | irq_assignment of nics(auto, vs cpu-ranges or numa names)
        
       | jrm4 wrote:
       | So, I was kind of hoping for something that could do some of this
       | for me? As in,e.g. bounce some pings all over my local network
       | and tell me what's what?
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       | I'm one of these 20+ year Linux using types that still just has
       | SO MUCH trouble with this sort of thing.
        
         | ebirger wrote:
         | Do you mean that you'd create some network setup and it'd
         | visualize it for you? in that case the current tool supports
         | defining the setup as a yaml file and uploading it. maybe some
         | tool can be written to build this yaml automatically for some
         | scenarios.
         | 
         | Or are you referring to something like a network observability
         | tool like https://github.com/netenglabs/suzieq
        
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