Re: [swinog] IP Management Tool

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From: Viktor Steinmann stony@stony.com

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 :-)