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Accessing the Lab Environment

Task 1 - Understand the Lab Topology

You will primarily access the Linux jump host for all labs in the course.

Lab Topology

Task 2 - Accessing the Lab Environment

Obtain your pod number and FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) from the Course Instructor:

  • The pod will map directly to a publicly available FQDN that will be the public IP of your Linux jump host.
  • You will be able to access all network devices by name through this jump host when the network labs start.

The FQDN is built as follows:

<class-id>-pod<pod-number>.cloud.networktocode.com

Username: ntc Password: Ask the Instructor

You can access the Jump Host via SSH (we recommend VSCode with the Remote-SSH extension) or RDP (for a full desktop experience).

Using a Linux based OS, use the following command:

ssh ntc@pub5-pod12.cloud.networktocode.com

Otherwise, you can use a standard SSH client such as Putty or SecureCRT.