forgot to mention, that the ideal tool would deal with overlapping
RFC1918 ranges as well ;-)
----- Original Message ----
> From: Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin(a)yahoo.com>
> To: swinog(a)swinog.ch
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:56:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [swinog] IP Management Tool
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: Viktor Steinmann
>
> > I cannot speak for all, but as for us, we want to manage ALL IPs in one tool
> > - even the RFC1918 IPs for internal use.
>
> also AS numbers, VLAN numbers, RD, RT, VRF names in an MPLS network, BGP
> communities,....
> in the end, port numbers on your switches ;-)
>
> Probably Michael is right, RIPE DB is the only professional open source tool
> able to do that.
>
> Actually many commercial tools aren't doing it well either. EasyIP is just one
> example :-)
>
> Also it's quite clear why there aren't many open source tool of good quality:
> programmers don't understand IP networking, and network engineers (in general)
> cannot develop software of good quality :-)