<p>I need to draw some simple network topology charts, suggestions of some good tools appreciated. </p>

<p>Edit: love freeware  :-)</p>

[{'answer_id': 71536, 'author': 'Matthias Winkelmann', 'author_id': 4494, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4494', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://www.graphviz.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Graphviz</a> is great if you want the layout to be automatic.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71537, 'author': 'Matthias Winkelmann', 'author_id': 4494, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4494', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Omnigraffle if you want to do it by hand and have a Mac.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71542, 'author': 'Colonel Sponsz', 'author_id': 11651, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11651', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Try <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Dia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dia</a> - it\'s open source and cross platform.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71549, 'author': 'Galwegian', 'author_id': 3201, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3201', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p><a href="http://www.smartdraw.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SmartDraw</a> is the best there is. It costs, but is worth the dosh.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 204994, 'author': 'Tubs', 'author_id': 11924, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11924', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>NetworkNotepad is a useful, if quirky, programme.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 13466386, 'author': 'Tobias Junge', 'author_id': 1499454, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1499454', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Easy to use, full of features, good looking and for free - <a href="http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html" rel="nofollow">yEd</a>.</p>\n'}]
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