On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 17:38 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: > > It produces dot (graphviz) output or json and has no dependencies on > anything GUI related. Just run it on the remote machine and display the > output locally. > > ssh root@remote plotnetcfg | dot -Tpdf | whatever_pdf_viewer > > Note that some pdf viewers can't read stdin or require dash as the > parameter to use stdin. > > I don't think it's possible to enhance iproute2 to display the network > interface dependencies in an useful way. It's just too complex. It's > not even a (undirected) tree.
I know there is an option to execute something remotely but I think a pure text output may be useful to get a quick overview. Well it is impossible to draw a simple tree showing the configuration exactly with all details. May be it is too ambitious to draw a tree at all. But neither directory structure is a tree (when consider links) and there are a plenty of tools showing directory tree.
