Which standard do you follow to draw a network topology?

[JIANDE ZHANG]

I didn't really find a book which talk about how to draw a network topology. 

Do you know any good book or some documents which could give us clear network topology rules to follow it?

[Karsten Iwen]

Greg Ferro from Etherealmind has some excellent blog-posts on this topic:

http://etherealmind.com/category/network-diagrams/

[JIANDE ZHANG]

A great resouce of nework diagrams.

Thank you very much.

[devils_advocate]

Its down to personal preference and what components you want to include, there is no standard or best practice as its an individual thing.

Do you just want switches and routers?

What about Firewalls?

Any load balancers?

Servers?

etc etc...

The basics would be all physical connections between switches/routers with their corresponding port numbers. Hostnames and IP addresses of all Routers/Switches next to each device. 

The most important part is having all the information, if you obtain everything you need before starting then its usually very straight forward. 

[JIANDE ZHANG]

thank you for your answer.

It seems everybody all have their own way to draw a network topology. But in other field, such as mechanical industry, the students could learn from their class. they learned the draw skills from school. That means mechanical industry have some basical rules to follow.

I've asked many network engineers this question. None of them knows which basical network topology drawing rules we should follow.