Archive for May, 2008

Planning network configurations

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Planning of network configurations can involve many routers that send and receive network traffic. Structural networks that are disconnected can result from provisioning inconsistencies. To avoid configuration errors, a conflict-checking service can be created that examines the logs from provisioning routers and builds a directed graph. This graph can be examined for connectivity between ports that inject and extract traffic from a core network.