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Connecting to the Equipment

If you haven't already, you need to Schedule one or more sessions. When your session begins, you will receive an email notification.

Connecting to the Lab equipment is easy and we provide several connection types to suit your preferences. When you connect, you will be prompted for a username and password. For free-labs.com, your username will be lab1 or lab3. Your password is the same as the one that you use to log into the website.

Standard Telnet - From any computer, simply telnet to the lab terminal server using it's FQDN (lab.free-labs.com or lab.expert-labs.com). E.g, from a unix command prompt,

UNIX: [you@pc]$ telnet lab.free-labs.com

Windows: Once your session begins,
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Reverse Telnet - If you already know which device you wish to connect to, simply telnet to it's corresponding port. Reverse telnet ports start at 2001, 2002 (for R1, R2) and continue on to 2019 (SW1) and 2020 (SW2). These are standard for Free-Labs and Expert-Labs. For Free-Labs.com, you can telnet to ports 2001-2007, and 2019. Also, with reverse telnet, you can add desktop shortcuts to the individual devices for faster access. For example, To connect directly to R3 on Free-Labs.com in Linux:

[you@pc]$ telnet lab.free-labs.com 2003 Secure Shell (SSH) - If you would like to use encryption security for your sessions, use an ssh client to connect. Most *nix distributions come with one included, and there is a great win client called Putty . The reverse telnet ports do not work with SSH.
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