When documenting your network infrastructure, you are obtaining both hardware data to document your infrastructure's physical structure and software data to document the existence and configuration of the protocols in use on your network.
1. perpendicular-a straight line at right angles to another line. straight line-a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
The question of distance between two straight lines arises only when they are parallel. The given lines are parallel. If the equations of parallel lines are ax + by + c = 0 and ax + by + c' = 0, then the perpendicular distance between them is given by. p = l c - c' l / sqrt ( a^2 + b^2 )