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  • Writer's pictureClifford McGraw Jr.

Connecting your computer to a Cisco Devnet Sandbox Router

You can probably use the advice below for linux, but this is primarily for Mac OS X. I have no idea how this would work for windows however, some of this may be able to help if you're stuck not being able to connect.



Download Homebrew

Open terminal and paste the command below.



sudo /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Download Python 3

Paste the command below in terminal

sudo brew install python 3

Download Ansible

Paste the command below in terminal


sudo python3 -m pip install ansible

Download Paramiko

Paste the command below in terminal

sudo python3 -m pip install paramiko

Download GIT

Paste the command below in terminal


brew install git

Log in or sign up and log in to Cisco Devnet


Reserve a IOS XE on CSR Latest Code sandbox on this page


Download Cisco Anyconnect


Wait for an email that tells you that your sandbox is activated.


Copy the Anyconnect information from the email and use that in the Anyconnect VPN.


Try to SSH into the router.

Paste command into terminal

ssh developer@10.10.20.48

IF YOU SEE THE BELOW ERROR CLICK HERE!

Unable to negotiate with 10.10.20.48 port 22: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1

Follow instructions on this Devnet page and make this change when making changes to the hosts file.


Under the iosxe group. Replace sandbox-iosxe-latest-1.cisco.com with 10.10.20.48 which is the address of the router.


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