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Currently 8732 is assumed to always be node's port. That is not always the case. It should be possible to specify a different port.

Connectivity and active connections in the network are dynamic. It's useful to be able to monitor it continuously.

Graph in dot format may be used in other tools, e.f. https://gephi.org/

Sequential graph snapshots often differ visually in significant ways. It is hard to visually track changes. It would be great to control graph layout better so that same nodes stay close to their position in previous state and/or animate layout transitions

Add setup.py, define dependencies so that it can be installed with pip

When working on setting up tezos p2p network it is useful to be able to analyze the topology/connectivity in the resulting network.

Output of tezos rpc /network/connections endpoint is json that describes nodes connections. It lists incoming and outgoing connections to other peers on the network.

Create a tool that generates a graph that represents these connections in graphviz format (dot). It should be able to visualize output of individual node's /network/connections but also crawl the p2p network and aggregate connections info from all nodes into a single graph.