Map your network visually.

This is a nice little graphical utility to graph out what and who might be on your network. Makes documentation much easier for those in charge of the network to assess networking assets. You can certainly use it for business, but I love using it for home also. We will be using jnetmap for linux. Impress a friend with it. There is a product that is java based and more platform independent with the same name,

Note this should map all normal ip devices, including  MSWindown, OSX, and etc. This software requires knowledge of local area networking and Internet protocol basics. i.e. you should know what an ipaddress (equivalent of a phone number or house address for a computer)  is and how it is used.

Step 1 Installation.

You need to download http://sourceforge.net/projects/jnetmap/files/jNetMap%200.5/jNetMap-0.5.deb/download from sourceforge.

From the command line go to where you downloaded it to and install it.

$ cd (download directory)
$ sudo dpkg -i jNetMap-0.5.deb

If your Debian based repository supports it:.

$ sudo apt-get install jnetmap

Go to the Applications menu > Internet > jNetMap to run it.