I have used VitalQIP (commercial, expensive, Alcatel Lucent)  in my previous job (car maker IT headquarters, 200 000 IP addresses), I won't advise it either ... It's a full suite for DNS, DHCP, IP management.

Not as scalable as expected to be, bad support from the editor, quite rigid, your architecture has to adapt to their way of thinking and programming, and I must admit the programmers didn't know about network latency when they studied the scalability of the product (5 servers DNS/DHCP were oversees, more than 200ms ping each, they were never able to efficiently deal with that).

Before quitting, I was searching for an open source alternative, but as the philosophy of the company was just starting to be "open minded", they still run QIP (and bought a newer version for $$$$$) ...

My 2 cents,

2008/11/13 Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin@yahoo.com>
forgot to mention, that the ideal tool would deal with overlapping

RFC1918 ranges as well ;-)



----- Original Message ----
> From: Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin@yahoo.com>
> To: swinog@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 :-)

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