LDWin VS ScreenToGif

You can use LDWin on your Windows laptop to display any LLDP/CDP packets from the switch: https://github.com/chall32/LDWin

LDWin - LLDP/CDP capture tool for windows.

LDwin. https://github.com/chall32/LDWin Cisco port discovery in Windows. When the fluke tool is taken and you need to troubleshoot a physical connection, find out where a network point on the wall is going to or just find out what port a machine is connected to.

LDWin

I would also recommend downloading and using LDWin which enabled your laptop to receive and decode LLDP/CDP packets transmitted by switches/networking equipment. This can help you identify what port/switch you are connected to without much hassle.

Use a switch with LLDP or CDP support, which will announce which Ethernet port on each LLDP or CDP packet. Then pick up the packets on a computer using a sniffer like tcpdump or Wireshark, or a specific tool like lldpd on Linux/BSD/Unix or this one for Windows. Then match the switch port to the patch-panel port, and label the wall-jack with the patch-panel number.

I have used this program as well and works ok: https://github.com/chall32/LDWin

By following these steps, your diagram will be exported as an SVG, keeping the animation intact. If you find yourself on a platform that doesn't support SVG, you can use external programs like ScreenToGif. This program lets you record your screen and export the recording as a GIF. Handy for platforms that prefer GIFs over SVGs.

ScreenToGif has a very nice editor that can make cinemagraphs, remove duplicate frames, etc.

ffmpeg can make gifs, but I don't know how you would do stuff like static regions. It could probably be done with some masking and filtering, but I think you would need to make the mask separately so why not use a GUI gif editor instead?

https://www.screentogif.com/

If you need to show the screen, you should take a screen shot of the entire window, via Window->SaveScreenshot, rather than using a cell phone or something. Take the entire screen instead of just the one part you think is broken. The reason it's broken is not the part, but something else, or you would have already figured out why it's broken. (Sadly, blender no longer has built in screen-animation recording for some reason, but I'm told https://www.screentogif.com/ is a good tool to have handy.)

Also depending on what you're doing Screen to GIF is fantastic.

Screen to gif is a nice programm for that. Have a look at it: https://www.screentogif.com/

Happily. Is free https://www.screentogif.com/ I record the screen, halve the gif size, add the steps in writing at the bottom of the gif, then paste it into a google doc.

I just used the first result which comes up when you search for a GIF recorder in google.

ScreenToGIF is my go-to. Easy to capture, solid set of editing tools, and a top-notch compression algorithm for saving at a high-quality.

If you need to show the screen, you should take a screen shot of the entire window, via Window->SaveScreenshot, rather than using a cell phone or something. Take the entire screen instead of just the one part you think is broken. The reason it's broken is not the part, but something else, or you would have already figured out why it's broken. (Sadly, this no longer works for recording an animation for some reason, but I'm told https://www.screentogif.com/ is a good tool to have handy.)

Use this : https://www.screentogif.com/ It's free and works great