forgot to mention, that the ideal tool would deal with overlapping 

RFC1918 ranges as well ;-)



----- Original Message ----
> From: Stanislav Sinyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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